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The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries

Walter Korpi; Joakim Palme · American Sociological Review 63(5), 661–687 · 1998

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Walter Korpi; Joakim Palme
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DOI 10.2307/2657333
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2026-09-01

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DisputedKorpi and Palme (1998) found that welfare states with encompassing, earnings-related programmes reduced poverty and inequality more than those that targeted benefits on the poor, which they called the paradox of redistribution.