Welfare states and welfare outcomes in the 1980s

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ID9971111
AuthorsDeborah Mitchell (Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume45
Issue1-2
Pages73-90
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Security Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-871X • E-ISSN: 1468-246X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-246x.1992.tb00904.x
OpenAlexW2002579621
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

Welfare state typologies can be a useful means of grouping together countries with similar policy regimes. Whether the policy outcomes of these regimes are similar is an empirical question which could not be adequately addressed until the advent of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) project. Using evidence from the LIS data on income inequality and poverty, this paper examines the extent to which regime types and outcomes coincide. The findings suggest that while there is a broad coincidence, these typological frameworks are beset by boundary problems which result in the misclassification of some countries. In addition, as individual nations change policy direction, the task of sorting ideological postures from substantive change decreases the reliability of such typologies

Coincidence · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ideology · Inequality · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Poverty · Public economics · Social policy · Sociology · Sorting · Task (project management · Welfare · Welfare state · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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