Content with the tag: estado del bienestar

Is the welfare state biased in favour of elderly people? This article analyses the financial sustainability of the current system.

How can the experience of the developed world help other regions of the planet that are in earlier phases of demographic transition?

Some 23.1% of Spain’s GDP is assigned to programmes for the care of elderly people, health, unemployment, disability, family, social exclusion and housing.

In Spain, 10% of women perform care work, by far exceeding the 5% of male carers.

Some 34.8 of grandparents in Spain regularly care for their grandchildren, a figure much higher than the European average.

Between 2008 and 2018, benefits for the elderly increased, whereas benefits for families did not improve.