Welfare regimes and welfare state outcomes in Europe
Welfare regimes and welfare state outcomes in Europe
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DOI：
10.1177/0958928712456572
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
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3
通讯作者：
Peichl, Andreas
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作者：
Kammer, Andreas;Niehues, Judith;Peichl, Andreas
福利国家的类型学通常基于福利政策的制度设计。在本文中，我们分析了当这些类型学应用于福利国家税收和转移政策的有效再分配结果时，它们是否也存在。与广泛使用宏观指标相比，我们的实证分析依赖于国际可比的微观数据，以解释家庭间的资源分配。我们进行了层次聚类分析，并检查西欧福利国家的经典类型是否再现了有效经济结果的典型模式。我们发现，既有的福利制度不仅在众所周知的福利国家制度上存在差异，而且在经济结果上也存在差异。我们特别指出了社会民主主义、保守主义、自由主义和南方福利制度。比利时和荷兰是介于社会民主模式和保守模式之间的混合案例。
Welfare state typologies are generally based on the institutional design of welfare policies. In this paper we analyse whether such typologies also persist when they are applied to effective redistributive outcomes of welfare states' tax and transfer policies. In contrast to the widespread use of macro indicators, our empirical analysis relies on internationally comparable microdata in order to account for the distribution of resources across households. We perform a hierarchical cluster analysis and check whether the classical typology for Western European welfare states reproduces the typical patterns when it comes to effective economic outcomes. We find that the established welfare regimes not only differ in their welfare state institutions as is known, but also in their economic outcomes. In particular, we identify the social-democratic, conservative, liberal and southern welfare regimes. Belgium and the Netherlands emerge as hybrid cases lying between the social-democratic and conservative model.