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COMMENTS: Development of inequality according to some
social indicators from 1990’s up today Inequality and the Nordic Welfare Model –seminar
7th November 2011, Helsinki
SUSAN KUIVALAINEN
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Finnish welfare state – a success story?
• YES
– According to international rankings
– Particularly SO from a longer time perspective
– Globally YES
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Income inequalities mid 1980 to late 2000s
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OECD 2011
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Our problem: Increasing disparities since the Great Depression of 1990’ies
• NOT ONLY OUR PROBLEM,
it is problem for many affluent countries
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FINLAND IN NORDIC COMPARISON
• SOME HESITATION that Finland is the lowest performer among the Nordic countries regarding equity
– Depends on indicator
• Other Nordic countries have not faced similar negative development in equity and social problems as Finland – WHY?
– Need research
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Index of:
• Life expectancy
• Math & Literacy
• Infant mortality
• Homicides
• Imprisonment
• Teenage births
• Trust
• Obesity
• Mental illness – incl.
drug & alcohol
addiction
• Social mobility
Health and Social Problems are Worse in More Unequal Countries
Source: Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level (2009)
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Child Well-being is Better in More Equal Rich Countries
Source: Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level (2009)
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Adequacy of social assistance
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Relative poverty among social assistance recipients
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Kuivalainen & Nelson:
Eroding minimum
income?
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FINLAND bad
• Employment
– Active labour market policy, also social security
• Violence
– Is it just GENES?
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• Inequality matters: strong evidence that inequalities are associated with many shortages in well-being
• HOWEVER MECHANISMS are blurry
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Life expectancy in the Nordic countries 2001-2010, females Source: Eurostat 2011
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Live births per 1000 15-19 years old women in the Nordic countries 2000-2008 Source: Nososco 2011
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• WE NEED RESEARCH national and comparative, particularly cross-Nordic comparisons
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Thank You!
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