European welfare states: not taking from the rich and giving to the poor, but taking from the working-aged and giving to the old and young

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European welfare states: not taking from the rich and giving to the poor, but taking from the working-aged and giving to the old and young.

Article Title: Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups

 

Funding: This study received support from the European Commission, FP7 framework (grant agreement 613247). No additional external funding was received for this study.

 

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255760