The Heterogeneity Link of the Welfare State and Redistribution Ethnic Heterogeneity, Welfare State Policies, Poverty, and Inequality in High Income Countries /

• Main Author: Waglé, Udaya R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Comparative politics.; Development economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Comparative Politics.
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Using data covering 1980 to 2005 across 17 high income countries, this book offers a thorough and systematic analysis of the relevance of population heterogeneity in determining variations in welfare state policies as well as inequality and poverty. Comparative analysis provides a new look into the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ethnic Heterogeneity
• The Welfare State
• Poverty and Inequality
• Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Welfare State
• Ethnic Heterogeneity and Poverty and Inequality
• Conclusion
• References
• Index.