Income Inequality, Partisan Politics, and Coverage-generosity Trade-off: Examining the Pension Policymaking in Developed Industrial Democracies (1971–2010)

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Brief Overview

This paper is focused on the relationship between welfare generosity and coverage. We find there exists a trade-off between them. This trade-off characterizes different policy designs, which are shaped by socioeconomic and political factors alike.

Author

• Hui Zhou, University of Houston