Towards productive welfare? A comparative analysis of 23 OECD countries
Towards productive welfare? A comparative analysis of 23 OECD countries
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走向生产性福利？
DOI：
10.1177/0958928708098522
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Stefan Kühner
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作者：
J. Hudson;Stefan Kühner
许多分析人士认为，全球化和更多以知识为基础的经济的出现，鼓励高收入国家转向以社会投资为重点的生产性福利模式，但福利的类型学仍然主要基于社会保护措施，而不是社会投资。在这里，我们发展了福利国家类型的分类，其中包含了社会政策的生产性和保护性因素。利用模糊集理想型分析，我们对23个经合组织国家在1994年、1998年和2003年三个时间点的样本数据进行了研究。对于福利国家正在从保护性提供模式转向生产性提供模式的说法，我们的研究结果不过是提供了非常有限的支持，而且在许多情况下，我们发现了另一种方向的转变。此外，我们还指出，一些国家的重点显然是生产性的，而另一些国家则设法将生产性和保护性结合起来。
Numerous analysts have suggested that globalization and the emergence of more knowledge-based economies have encouraged high-income nations to shift towards a model of productive welfare focused on social investment, yet typologies of welfare are still largely drawn on the basis of measures of social protection rather than social investment. Here we develop a classification of welfare state types that incorporates both productive and protective elements of social policy. Using fuzzy set ideal type analysis we explore data for a sample of 23 OECD countries in three time points: 1994, 1998 and 2003. Our findings provide no more than very modest support for claims that welfare states are shifting from protective to productive modes of provision and, in many cases, we identify a shift in the alternative direction. In addition, we identify some nations that are clearly productive in their focus and others that manage to combine productive and protective features.