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Walter Korpi, Joakim Palme, The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries, American Sociological Review, Vol. 63, No. 5 (Oct., 1998), pp. 661-687
Korpi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.