Joakim Palme

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the effects of different institutional types of welfare states on poverty and inequality and find that the more we target benefits at the poor and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequalities.

TL;DR: The authors argue that retrenchment can fruitfully be analyzed as distributive conflict involving a remaking of the early postwar social contract based on the full employment welfare state, a conflict in which partisan politics and welfare-state institutions are likely to matter.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical analysis of social investment ideas and policies and open up for discussion many of Europe's most pressing concerns, such as an aging population, the current economic crisis, and environmental issues, and whether social investment can provide adequate responses to these challenges.

TL;DR: Investigating to what extent variations in family and pension policies are linked to infant mortality and old-age excess mortality found increased generosity in family policies that support dual-earner families is linked with lower infant mortality rates, whereas the generosity in families that support more traditional families with gainfully employed men and homemaking women is not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the early origins of the social investment perspective in the "productive social policy" approach put forward in Sweden in the 1930s are traced to a brief analysis of the Keynesian and neo-liberal eras of social policy.