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Economic Crisis and Social Policy in Finland in the 1990s

dc.contributor.author Uusitalo, Hannu en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:33:56Z
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dc.date.issued 1996 en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper discusses the social policy consequences of the exceptional economic decline in Finland in the 1990s. It asks what happened to the Finnish welfare state in these exceptional economic conditions, and consequent political problems. It describes Finland’s economic performance in a comparative perspective, studies how government(s) have defined the goals of economic and social policies, and examines how the opinions of the Finns concerning the welfare state have changed during the recession. It also looks at the welfare outcomes, focusing on income levels, income distribution, poverty and social and health services. The results suggest that Finnish households have suffered economic losses which are smaller than the decline in the GDP would predict. The findings show that equivalent income distribution and relative poverty levels have not changed during the recession. The income losses of the recession have been spread relatively evenly, and the redistribution of the welfare state has been an important tool. Finally, it is argued that the explanatory factors of the growth vis-a-vis the retrenchment of the welfare state (or the lack of it) are different. Once established, structures and institutions of the welfare state can work as powerful tools even when economic and political conditions are difficult. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0733414532 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1447-8978 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/34004
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries SPRC Discussion Paper en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Economic Crisis and Social Policy in Finland in the 1990s en_US
dc.type Working Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/202
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 70 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Uusitalo, Hannu, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland en_US
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