The Swedish welfare state is becoming more generous, not to the poor, but to the middle class. However, because the standards methods used to quantify redistribution are inadequate, most welfare-state scholars in economics, sociology, and political science have not noticed this development.
The Middle Class and the Swedish Welfare State
How Not to Measure Redistribution
By Andreas Bergh
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