More than just Welfare Transfers? A Review of the Scope of Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regime Typology

Buhr, Daniel; Stoy, Volquart

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“…The first, which we refer to as categorization 1, is Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes. Although it was subject to some criticism (Ferragina et al, 2015), it is still widely used (see Buhr and Stoy, 2015; Haller et al, 2013; Pankratz, 2009). Esping-Andersen’s (1990, 2006) typology reflects diverse institutional state structures.…”

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Time and well-being, an institutional, comparative perspective: Is it time to explore the idea of a time policy?

Lahat

Sened

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article explores the relationship between time and well-being as a social policy question. Although the research on time and well-being is extensive, few have dealt with them together from a comparative institutional perspective. Based on data from the third European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) of 2012, regarding 34 mostly European countries, in different welfare regimes, we explore two issues: (1) What are the effects of welfare regimes on the uses of time and subjective well-being? and (2) What are the effects of different uses of time on subjective well-being? We find that the institutional structure – the welfare regime – affects the way people use their time. Furthermore, the findings documented that uses of time have a direct effect on well-being when controlling for individual level as well as country-level variables. These findings may have important implications for policymaking.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Time and well-being, an institutional, comparative perspective: Is it time to explore the idea of a time policy?

Lahat

Sened

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Thus, a welfare régime is not understood as simply a nation's social policy repertoire, but rather comprises the complex array of social, legal, historical, and economic organisations, including varying levels and types of decommodification and social stratification, the interaction between education systems and labour markets, and the roles of State, family, and market in providing social protection (Esping‐Andersen, ; Hall & Soskice, ). Although Esping‐Andersen's () framework has met with critique (Buhr & Stoy, ), it has been used to examine distinct patterns of inequality in various domains, including gender pay gaps (Mandel & Shalev, 2009), social capital inequality (Green, Preston, & Janmaat, ; Van Oorschot & Finsveen, ), caretaking responsibilities (Woods, ), access to healthcare (Bambra, ), and educational inequalities (Peter, Edgerton, & Roberts, ; West & Nikolai, ).…”

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Well‐being in the Welfare State: the redistributive capacity of education

Jongbloed¹,

Pullman²

2016

Euro J of Education

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Focusing on the macro‐micro interaction between institutional arrangements and individual life outcomes, this article investigates how welfare régime types impact the association between education and well‐being, as measured by satisfaction with life. Theorising with Esping‐Andersen's ideal‐typical welfare régime typology, we hypothesise that decommodified institutional arrangements reduce the association between education and well‐being through compensatory social protections for at‐risk individuals, while stratifying forces strengthen this association. These results are only partly supported; we find that Conservative Welfare States show the most robust association, whilst Liberal and Social‐Democratic Welfare States display weaker relationships. Thus, stratification appears to play a more important role than decommodification in moderating this association. We also examine potential mediating factors and how they differ between welfare régime types, finding that health and income mediate the effects of education on well‐being to varying degrees.

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“…Criticism is also expressed in these two issues. Critical remarks are exemplified by the fact that the nature of class as the basis for political mobilization and coalitions has changed significantly since 1990 (Gingrich and Häusermann, 2015) and that the initial framework promoted by EspingAndersen ignored welfare services and the industrial sector of the economy (Buhr and Stoy, 2015).…”

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Comparative Social Policy: A Historical Overview of the Field

Lalioti

2018

SCAD

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This article aims to provide a succinct historical overview of comparative social policy. Typified by both challenges and benefits, comparative social policy started to experience a period of growth in the 1960s, a time characterized by the dominance of the socalled Keynesian welfare state. It will be argued that the publication of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, during a period marked by the omnipotence of the so-called Schumpeterian welfare state, coincides with the beginning of a new era for comparative social policy, one that has resulted in it being recognized as a separate field of study. The article discusses the main characteristics of each evolutionary phase of comparative social policy, as exemplified by the preponderance of descriptive studies and the functionalist family of welfare state explanations in the pre-1990 years and the dominance of the welfare state taxonomies in the post-1990 period. In spite of the challenges that are yet to be overcome, the proliferation of studies in the field transmitspositive messages about the future of comparative social policy.

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More than just Welfare Transfers? A Review of the Scope of Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regime Typology

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Time and well-being, an institutional, comparative perspective: Is it time to explore the idea of a time policy?

Time and well-being, an institutional, comparative perspective: Is it time to explore the idea of a time policy?

Well‐being in the Welfare State: the redistributive capacity of education

Comparative Social Policy: A Historical Overview of the Field

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