Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (60 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lokshin, Michael Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?
Keywords:
Distribution
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Economic Assistance
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Engel Curve
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Governance
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ICT Economics
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ICT Support To Social Protections
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Information and Communication Technologies
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Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
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Pandemic
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Selective Data Reporting
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Social Protection
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Social Protection Expenditure
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Social Protections and Assistance
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Social Protections and Labor
Abstract:
The claim that social protection is a luxury good-with a national income elasticity exceeding unity-has been influential. The paper tests the "luxury good hypothesis" using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period separately, as it entailed a large expansion in social protection efforts. While the mean income share devoted to social protection rises with income, this is attributable to multiple confounders, including relative prices, weak governance in low-income countries and access to information-communication technologies. Controlling for these, social protection is not a luxury good. This was also true during the pandemic
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-10174
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