From the hidden welfare state to the hidden part of welfare state reform: Analyzing the uses and effects of fiscal welfare in France
| Autor: | Michaël Zemmour, Nathalie Morel, Chloé Touzet |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques [Sciences Po] (LIEPP), Sciences Po (Sciences Po), University of Oxford [Oxford], Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 (CLERSÉ), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (Sciences Po) (LIEPP) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Development Welfare reform 050906 social work Health care 050602 political science & public administration Economics Minimum wage ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common Public economics business.industry Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences 1. No poverty Welfare state [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science 0506 political science Social security Work (electrical) 8. Economic growth 0509 other social sciences business Welfare |
| Zdroj: | Social Policy and Administration Social Policy and Administration, Wiley, 2018, 53 (1), pp.34-48. ⟨10.1111/spol.12416⟩ Social policy & administration Social policy & administration, 2018, pp.1-15 Social policy & administration, 1-15 (2018-07) Social Policy and Administration, 2018, 53 (1), pp.34-48. ⟨10.1111/spol.12416⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0144-5596 1467-9515 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/spol.12416⟩ |
| Popis: | This article argues that fiscal welfare in Europe not only forms part of the “hidden welfare state” (Howard, 1997), but also constitutes an important yet understudied—and therefore hidden—element of welfare state reform. Using the example of France, and relying both on available data and on an exhaustive database of social tax expenditures (STEs) compiled for 2014, the article begins by providing an overview of the structure of STEs in France (section 2). It then analyzes the specific uses and effects of STEs in the fields of employment, health care, and pensions. In particular, it shows, first of all, how STEs have constituted a privileged instrument for circumventing certain institutional features such as high levels of minimum wage and of social security contributions in the field of employment (section 3). Second, it also shows that STEs have been used to quietly divert resources away from the earmarked social security funds and into collective private insurance funds, thus fueling their development, in the case of health care and pensions (section 4). Lastly, the article engages with the notion of the “social division of welfare” (Titmuss, 1958) by considering some of the distributional effects of fiscal welfare in France (section 5), before concluding (section 6). |
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