This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is linked to distributional outcomes. How and how much have changes in core social policy fields alleviated or strengthened different dimensions of inequality? The authors argue that while the market has been the major cause of increasing net inequalities, the trend towards supply orientation in most social policy fields has further contributed to social inequality. The authors work from sociological and political science perspectives, examining all of the main branches of the welfare state, from health, education and tax policy, to labour market, pension and migration policy.
Chapter 1. Welfare State Transformation and Inequality in OECD Countries; Melike Wulfgramm, Tonia Bieber and Stephan Leibfried.-Part I. Welfare State Transformations and Inequality: Concepts and Trends.- Chapter 2. Welfare State Transformation across OECD Countries: Supply Side Orientation, Individualized Outcome Risks and Dualization; Peter Starke, Melike Wulfgramm & Herbert Obinger.- Chapter 3. Persistent Social and Rising Economic Inequalities: Evidence and Challenges; Olaf Groh-Samberg.- Chapter 4. Philosophical Perspectives on Different Kinds of Inequalities; Stefan Gosepath.- Part II. Policy Fields.- Chapter 5. Taxation and Inequality: How Tax Competition has Changed the Redistributive Capacity of Nation States in the OECD; Laura Seelkopf & Hanna Lierse.- Chapter 6. Keeping an Eye on IRIS: Risk and Income Solidarity in OECD Healthcare Systems; Achim Schmid, Pascal Siemsen and Ralf G?tze.- Chapter 7. Retirement Income Provision and Household Income: Between- and Within-Cohort Inequalitiesl€
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