Seitz, Helmut; Kurz, Claudia - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 56 (1999) 3/4, pp. 518-518
In West Germany, social assistance expenditures increased by about 240% in the period 1980 to 1996 whereas total public expenditures increased by only about 80%. The paper examines the determinants as well as the financing of social assistance expenditures using a cross section of the West...