Growth to Limits: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark

annual Appendix Table beneficiaries cash benefits changes child allowances coalition contributions cost coverage curtailments declined demographic Dublin earnings-related economic growth elderly eligibility ratio employees entitlements expansion Fianna Fail financing Fine Gael flat-rate GDP share Gini coefficient Graph groups growth rates health services higher housing income maintenance increased institutional insurance scheme introduced Ireland Irish pounds labour force legislation major means-tested ment million National Health Service occupational injuries old age pensions op.cit outlays party payments pension insurance percent distribution persons phase political population postwar period poverty line proportion public expenditure public sector real terms recipients redistribution reduced reform relative revenues self-employed sickness insurance social assistance Social Democrats social expenditure social insurance social policy social programmes social security social services social-liberal coalition standard structure subsidies taxation tion transfer ratio trend unem unemployed unemployment benefits Wolfgang Zapf workers