Assessing the performance of social spending in Europe

Maria Alessandra Antonelli; Valeria De Bonis

doi:10.2478/cejpp-2018-0001

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Assessing the performance of social spending in Europe

Central European Journal of Public Policy

Volume 12 (2018): Issue 1 (June 2018)

By: Maria Alessandra Antonelli and Valeria De Bonis

Open Access

|Aug 2018

Abstract

Based on the construction of a composite index to assess the relative performance of welfare policies, we show that the variability of performances cannot be explained only by the amount of resources devoted to social policies, but also by its composition: countries with higher shares of social public expenditure, specifically aimed at reducing income concentration, obtain better results. This associates the traditional classification of the European welfare systems to the performance obtained in the social sector.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2018-0001 | Journal eISSN: 1802-4866

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Language: English

Page range: 17 - 31

Submitted on: Apr 7, 2017

Accepted on: Nov 21, 2017

Published on: Aug 6, 2018

Published by: University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Faculty of Economics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

welfare policies,

social expenditure,

social performance index,

European Union

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Political economics,

Public finance and fiscal theory,

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Sociology,

Social policy, social work, development aid,

Political science,

Political science, other

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