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Department of Social Policy: T H Marshall Fellowships celebration and Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State launch
Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-runProfessor Paul PiersonProfessor of public policy, holder of the Avice Sarint Chair of Public Policy, Berkeley
Professor Anton HemerijckSecretary of the Scientific Council for Government Policy in the Netherlands, Professor of Comparative Analysis of the European Welfare State at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Professor Julian le GrandTitmuss Professor of Social Policy , LSE
Professor Howard GlennersterChair, LSE
The Welfare State over the
(very) Long Run
Paul Pierson
UC Berkeley
November 2010
Welfare State Expansion, 1950-1980
(Ger., Sweden, US, UK, NL, IT)
Union Density, OECD, 1960-2008
DOG BITES MAN
Unemployment Benefit, 1971-2002
Sickness Benefit 1971-2002
Standard Pension Benefit, 1971-2002
Benefit Generosity in Three
Continental Cases
Benefit Generosity in Three Liberal
Cases
Benefit Generosity in Three Social
Democratic Cases
Benefit Generosity, 1971-2002
Public Share of Health Spending, 1970-
2000
%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
Austra
lia
Canad
a
Franc
eGer
man
y
Irelan
d
Japa
nNet
herla
nds
New Z
ealan
d
Sweden
Switzer
land
UK US
1973-75
circa 2000
The Top 1%* in Affluent Democracies* excluding capital gains
Source: Andrew Leigh, "How Closely Do Top
Income Shares Track Other Measures of
Inequality?", Economic Journal, forthcoming
Department of Social Policy: T H Marshall Fellowships celebration and Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State launch
Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-runProfessor Paul PiersonProfessor of public policy, holder of the Avice Sarint Chair of Public Policy, Berkeley
Professor Anton HemerijckSecretary of the Scientific Council for Government Policy in the Netherlands, Professor of Comparative Analysis of the European Welfare State at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Professor Julian le GrandTitmuss Professor of Social Policy , LSE
Professor Howard GlennersterChair, LSE