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Political Economy of the Finnish Welfare State

In: Welfare States and the Future

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  • Jukka Pekkarinen

    (Labour Institute for Economic Research)

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In its basic outline, the Finnish welfare state meets the broad characteristics of a Nordic type of welfare state: an emphasis on public services and reliance on relatively autonomous local administration for their provision, as well as, in social security, a combination of universal flat rate benefits and earnings-related social insurance. Yet the Finnish case has certain salient features of its own; the system is subject to tight economic constraints, and welfare expenditure has been constrained to the dividend left over by economic growth. Even in a cyclical context, the balanced budget constraint has made welfare expenditure clearly pro-cyclical.

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  • Jukka Pekkarinen, 2005. "Political Economy of the Finnish Welfare State," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: B. Vivekanandan & Nimmi Kurian (ed.), Welfare States and the Future, chapter 11, pages 161-177, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-55491-7_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230554917_11
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    1. B. Vivekanandan, 2012. "The Finnish Welfare State in the 1990s," International Studies, , vol. 49(1-2), pages 77-112, January.

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