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The 'Southern Model' of Welfare in Social Europe:
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In this paper, the authors identify some common traits of the welfare states of Italy, Spain, Por tugal and Greece, with special attention to in stitutional and political aspects, and propose a model to compare them.Abstract:
This article tries to identify some common traits of the welfare states of Italy, Spain, Por tugal and Greece, with special attention to in stitutional and political aspects.read more
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries
Johan P. Mackenbach,Irina Stirbu,Albert-Jan R. Roskam,Maartje M. Schaap,Gwenn Menvielle,Mall Leinsalu,Anton E. Kunst +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe and found that in almost all countries, the rates of death and poorer selfassessments of health were substantially higher in groups of lower socioeconomic status.
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Handbook of Economic Growth
TL;DR: The Handbook of Economic Growth as discussed by the authors summarizes recent advances in theoretical and empirical work while offering new perspectives on a range of growth mechanisms, from the roles played by institutions and organizations to the ways factors beyond capital accumulation and technological change can affect growth.
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Three worlds of welfare capitalism or more? A state-of-the-art report:
W.A. Arts,John Gelissen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors surveys the debate regarding Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare states and reviews the modified or alternative typologies ensuing from this debate and confine themselves to the classif...
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Faces of Inequality: Gender, Class, and Patterns of Inequalities in Different Types of Welfare States
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new typology of welfare states based on institutional structures of relevance for gender inequality as well as class inequality in 18 OECD countries in the arenas of democratic politics, tertiary education, and labor force participation.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results
TL;DR: In this article, the authors specify the origins, mechanisms and results of the autonomous power which the state possesses in relation to the major power groups of "civil society" and argue that state autonomy, of both despotic and infrastructural forms, flows principally from the state's unique ability to provide a territorially centralised form of organization.
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Families of nations : patterns of public policy in Western democracies
TL;DR: The politics of labour supply: coping with economic crisis - labour supply as a policy instrument gendered labour force participation and families and families of nations: the politics of childhood - the rights of children in modern times why divorce rates differ - law, religious belief and modernity conclusion - beyond the lonely nation state as discussed by the authors.