Is There a Trade-off Between Economic Efficiency and a Generous Welfare State? A Comparison of Best Cases of The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
A crucial debate in policy-making as well as academic circles is whether there is a trade-off between economic efficiency and the size/generosity of the welfare state. One way to contribute to this debate is to compare the performance of 'best cases' of different types of state. Arguably, in the decade 1985-94, the US, West Germany and the Netherlands were 'best cases' - best economic performers - in what Esping-Andersen (1990) calls 'the three worlds of welfare capitalism'. The US is a liberal welfare-capitalist state, West Germany a corporatist state, and the Netherlands is social democratic... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal article |
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Schlagwörter: | Keywords: capitalism / comparative study / social policy / welfare provision / Germany / Netherlands / United States |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/89016 |