Family Policy: a Cost of Democracy

• Authors: Dzierzgowski J. , Frieske K. W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authors try to analyze, what is the logic of the system of family benefits and family tax expenditures in contemporary Poland and what presumptions about beneficiaries does it entail. In their view, it is hard to say, whether the aforementioned benefits are designed to support the income of the poorest families, since, as a result of family tax expenditures and the way of means-testing family benefits, quite a few beneficiaries are people of relatively good income status. They conclude that this kind of inconsistency is simply a cost of democracy, and social policy - especially when it concerns families - should not be overly rational

Keywords

EN

FAMILY BENEFITS; FAMILY POLICY; MEANS-TEST; SOCIAL POLICY

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Polityka Społeczna
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 3(408)
• Pages: 1-6
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dzierzgowski J.

author

Frieske K. W.

• J. Dzierzgowski, Instytut Pracy i Spraw Socjalnych, ul. Bellottiego 3B, 01-022 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04378484