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Why social security expenditure in the 1980s has risen faster than expected: the role of unemployment

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  • Richard Disney

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Nottingham)

  • Steven Webb

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The difficulties encountered in forecasting social security expenditure (significantly underpredicted for much of the 1980s) have long been a source of concern-not least to officials in the DSS. Although official forecasts are undertaken and published primarily because they are needed for the public expenditure planning process, they should also palay a scientific role in testing the underlying theories abou the determinants of social security spending.

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  • Richard Disney & Steven Webb, 1990. "Why social security expenditure in the 1980s has risen faster than expected: the role of unemployment," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 11(1), pages 1-20, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ifs:fistud:v:11:y:1990:i:1:p:1-20
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    1. Semjén, András, 1996. "A pénzbeli jóléti támogatások ösztönzési hatásai [Incentive effects of social monetary benefits]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(10), pages 841-862.

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