More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

Kuitto, Kati

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“…Indeed the major studies in the field about the relationship between political actors and economic redistribution rely on this indicator (Jensen 2011). Although some research has taken advantage of disaggregated categories of social expenditure (Kuitto 2011), the demarcation of sub-categories of spending can create problems in cross-national comparability. In line with earlier studies, we therefore opt for a comprehensive measure of social expenditure (Huber and Stephens 2001;Swank 1988).…”

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Trade union density and social expenditure: a longitudinal analysis of policy feedback effects in OECD countries, 1980–2010

Hooghe¹,

Oser²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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Two causal mechanisms have been invoked to explain the positive correlation between union membership and social expenditure. Unions try to influence policy, but they are also more successful in mobilizing members in economic systems in which actors engage in coordinated strategic interaction. Applying insights from the policy feedback and comparative capitalism literatures, our analysis indicates that union density is a determinant of social expenditure. A strong policy feedback effect is also present whereby social expenditure has a positive effect on union density. We find a positive effect of union density on social expenditure in coordinated market economies (CME's), but not in liberal market economies (LME's). We discuss the implications of these findings for citizens' capacity to influence policy in varied contexts and for the 'varieties of capitalism' literature, and we close with some speculation about the implications of these findings in the current economic downturn.

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Section: Research Design and Hypothesesmentioning

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Trade union density and social expenditure: a longitudinal analysis of policy feedback effects in OECD countries, 1980–2010

Hooghe¹,

Oser²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The level of social spending in Italy is in line with the EU average, at approximately 26 percent of GDP in 2006 (Eurostat, 2012a). Italian social spending is biased toward old age and survivor pensions that absorb more than 60 percent of the resources (Kuitto, 2011); thus, the amount that remains to finance other forms of assistance is appreciably below what is spent in other large EU economies such as France, Germany, or the U.K.…”

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A Micro‐Econometric Analysis of the Antipoverty Effect of Social Cash Transfers in Italy

Fabrizi

Ferrante

Pacei

2013

Review of Income and Wealth

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We analyze the anti‐poverty effect of social cash transfers using a micro‐econometric approach. Aggregate analyses, based on comparing average poverty indicators before and after public transfers, fail to address who receives the transfers and how the transfers are distributed among the poor. We consider three dichotomous outcome variables: (i) poverty status before the receipt of transfers; (ii) the receipt of transfers; and (iii) poverty status after the receipt of transfers. We use a trivariate probit model with sample selection, connecting the outcome variables to the characteristics of the household and its head. Our empirical results highlight that the Italian social transfers system overprotects certain household typologies at the expense of others, as social transfers are primarily awarded to employees with permanent positions and the elderly, while the system is not generous enough to large households with dependant children, the self‐employed, temporary contract workers, and the unemployed.

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“…This is par-ticularly true in contemporary Romania, where household resources are scant due to increasing vulnerabilities in the labour market (Stă nculescu and Marin 2011), a minimalistic or emergent welfare state (Cerami 2008;Kuitto 2011), little community support and widespread social distrust (Voicu 2010;Mueller 2011). Bearing in mind these structural features of Romanian society, the fourth section of the paper discusses the various risks of slipping into poverty by four representative cases according to their household type, further suggesting labelling this category as 'precarious decency' due to lack of strong evidences for strategies of achieving prosperity.…”

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Romanian Households Dealing with Precariousness: A life-course approach

Vlase

2015

European Societies

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This paper addresses the main pathways through which households avoid slipping into poverty in Romania by employing a life-course approach. Recent researches on social stratification found that in every country we can delineate a particular social layer composed of households living just above the poverty threshold, whose members struggle to reach a more secure prosperity while facing constant threats of downward mobility. Drawing on recent precarious prosperity research, and based on in-depth interviews carried out in 2013 with 25 households situated in between poverty and prosperity from a Romanian city (Cluj-Napoca), we use a life-course approach in order to account for the main routes into precarious decency of our sampled cases. We found evidence that opportunities for agency in order to overcome precariousness are contingent on household's type, its gender composition and members' interlocking life trajectories. Life-course approach allows us to understand household situation in time perspective and to account for the influence of changing structural context framing individuals' life-course patterns. At the same time, individuals' life courses are increasingly de-standardised within the current post-communist context. The transition from state planned to market economy, coupled with the minimalistic welfare state, and with the low social and institutional trust altering the solidarity of communities are joint factors leading to declining opportunities to rely on other resources than those provided by household members. Interviewed households vary according to their composition, history and assets, further affecting the odds of slipping into poverty. Therefore, our paper raises concerns for policy-makers.

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More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

Cited by 32 publications

References 38 publications

Trade union density and social expenditure: a longitudinal analysis of policy feedback effects in OECD countries, 1980–2010

Trade union density and social expenditure: a longitudinal analysis of policy feedback effects in OECD countries, 1980–2010

A Micro‐Econometric Analysis of the Antipoverty Effect of Social Cash Transfers in Italy

Romanian Households Dealing with Precariousness: A life-course approach

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