Changing social investment strategies in the EU

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This article attempts to identify social investment strategies across EU countries and explain their evolution over the period 2004-18, by using cluster analysis on expenditure and coverage variables and qualitative analysis on selected policy areas to contextualize the results. It finds that strategies have diversified over time in a progressively complex way. After the financial crisis, three main social investment strategies emerge in Europe. They do not overlap with canonical welfare state models, nor have a clear-cut geographical connotation. The strategies are distinct because of their different levels of overall expenditure on social investment but, over time, also by their different life-course orientations. Significant variation within the clusters, in terms of both expenditure and design of social investment policies, indicates that fully-fledged strategies have not yet formed in well-defined groups of countries.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: JRC Working Papers Series on Labour, Education and Technology ; No. 2022/01

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Sara Baiocco ; Cinzia Alcidi ; Francesco Corti ; Mattia Di Salvo ; Social investment ; cluster analysis ; welfare state

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Baiocco, Sara ; Alcidi, Cinzia ; Corti, Francesco ; Di Salvo, Mattia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
• (wo): Seville
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/250004
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ