Income Distribution and Social Expenditures

Jonathan A. Schwabish, Timothy M. Smeeding and Lars Osberg

Chapter 9 in The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, 2006, pp 247-288 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economic inequality, actual or perceived, plays an important role in influencing the set of goods and services that are subsidized by the public sector. Public expenditures on defense, police and fire services, roads, foreign aid, or research and development may (or may not) have benefits for all citizens. However, except for those directly employed in these activities, such expenditures do not directly affect the well-being of households. In this chapter, we focus on public expenditures that provide income or goods and services directly to households. This implies that we are primarily concerned with public expenditure on the provision of ‘private goods,’ including cash and near-cash transfers.1

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Income Inequality; Income Distribution; Median Voter; World Value Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378605_9

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