Social Protection Public Expenditures and Income Inequality

Cosmin Enache ()

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2012, vol. XII, issue 2, 1120-1125

Abstract: For a sample of 29 European countries, the efficiency of social protection public expenditures in providing income support and diminishing income inequality is assessed in a panel framework. An increase in the size of the government intervention through social protection public expenditure is found to be associated with a decrease in income inequality. Also, we found evidence of the Kuznets effect. Not least, the results pointed out that a lower income inequality could be found in economies with high levels of employment, high tertiary education achievement, low levels of corruption and low levels of old age dependency ratio.

Keywords: Social Protection Public Expenditures; Income Inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D31 H53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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