Welfare Regimes in the UE 15 and in the Enlarged Europe: An exploratory analysis

Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira (leonorvf@fep.up.pt) and Adelaide Figueiredo (adelaide@fep.up.pt)
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Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira: Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto and CEMAPRE/ISEG-UTL
Adelaide Figueiredo: Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto and LIACC/UP

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Abstract: The basic aim of this paper is to assess existing welfare regimes in the countries of European Union before and after the enlargement of May 2004 (EU 15 and EU 25) building on a comprehensive approach that considers different dimensions of welfare through an extended set of variables. The paper starts with a brief presentation of current debates on welfare regimes and the new social policy agenda in the European Union. It proceeds with the selection of different dimensions of social welfare and social policy and related key variables that make up the database for the following multivariate statistical analysis, used in order to produce a clustering of welfare regimes. The paper concludes with a tentative interpretation of the underlying characteristics and patterns of current welfare mix and social policies in European Union.

Keywords: Welfare Regimes; Social Policy; European Union; Enlargement; Cluster Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I31 I38 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages.
Date: 2005-06
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