No evidence that social-democratic welfare states equalize valued outcomes for individuals with disabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4602936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexi Gugushvili (0000-0002-3933-9111, University of Oslo, corresponding author), J Grue (0000-0002-3786-9768, University of Oslo), Therese Dokken (0000-0002-6263-7707, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration), Jon Erik Finnvold (0000-0002-3693-904X, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 339 |
| Pages | 116361 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116361 |
| PMID | 37951055 |
| OpenAlex | W4388330789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 53 |
It is acknowledged that generous welfare states can provide better outcomes to their populations in terms of objective and subjective indicators of well-being, yet there is little comparative evidence of the role that the welfare state regime plays in lessening disability-based inequalities. Using a large comparative data set of most European societies, Tukey's honestly significant difference and generalized Hausman tests for six welfare state regimes, we examine the assumption that social-democratic countries perform better in mitigating disability-based inequalities than conservative, liberal, Southern, Eastern European, and the former Soviet Union welfare state regimes. We compare the valued outcomes for individuals with and without disabilities regarding their education, labour market participation, material well-being, and life satisfaction. The main finding of this study is that the most generous welfare states in Europe do not perform better, and in some cases, perform worse, than other less comprehensive welfare state regimes in closing the gap in valued outcomes between individuals with disabilities and the rest of the population. We discuss potential explanations of these inequalities such as the nature of expectations and changing characteristics of welfare state regimes, and difficulties related to measuring disabilities across European societies
Democracy · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · European Social Survey · European union · Inequality · International economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |