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- Title
Poor targeting? Targeting the poor? Redistribution in the Hungarian welfare system by age and socio‐economic status.
- Authors
Gál, Róbert I.; Medgyesi, Márton
- Abstract
In line with the previous research, we confirm that welfare programmes in Hungary are poorly targeted in terms of socio‐economic status (SES). However, by adding age to our models, we demonstrate that even if the status is irrelevant in explaining access to social benefits and services, age is not. Applying simple regression techniques, we compare both the theoretical importance (based on regression coefficients) and the dispersion importance (using Shapley‐value decomposition of the R2) of age and SES in explaining the receipt of and contributions to both in‐kind and in‐cash benefits at the level of the general government in Hungary. We conclude that what appears to be a dysfunctional instrument in alleviating poverty and inequality in a univariate model is actually a channel of resource reallocation that connects working‐age people to children and to the elderly when the model includes two predictors.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; EQUALITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL status
- Publication
Social Policy & Administration, 2021, Vol 55, Issue 4, p716
- ISSN
0144-5596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/spol.12653