Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups

• Pieter Vanhuysse ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vanhuysse@sam.sdu.dk

  Affiliations Department of Political Science and Public Management, Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6496-8959

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• Marton Medgyesi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliations Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, Child Opportunities Research Group, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Robert I. Gal

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Political Science and Public Management, Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary

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