Welfare state development, individual deprivations and income inequality: a cross-country analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean

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dc.contributor.authorCruz Martínez, Gibrán Alberto
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-30T17:47:04Z
dc.date.available2024-01-30T17:47:04Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionSeveral scholars have confirmed the role that the welfare state (WS) plays in reducing poverty, promoting equality and ensuring the common wellbeing. One of the limitations of the scholarship has been the conceptualization and operationalization of the WS and poverty as one-dimensional variables. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between welfare state development –as a onedimensional and multidimensional variable-, single-dimensions deprivations and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, before and after controlling for demographic and cyclical factors. The WS is operationalized taking into account its multidimensional nature. Three individual deprivations suffered by people on poverty and two income inequality indicators are used as dependent variables. Three pooled time-series cross-section regression analyses with panel-corrected standard errors models were carried out on 18 countries in the region around 2000, 2005 and 2010. This paper shows that the development of social-welfare programs and institutions seems to be an effective way of tackling individual deprivations suffered by people on poverty in the region. On the other hand, the WS development didn’t appear to be effective to reduce income inequality. The outcomes of welfare institutions appear to be the pivotal dimension to reduce income inequality and income deprivations in the region.
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possible existence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare state development (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness, democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatory variables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this paper shows that there is no evidence of a common path followed by countries with a relatively high/medium WSD. Nevertheless, countries that experienced a low economic/industrial development combined with a low democratic experience were conditioned to have a low WSD.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Ciencia Política y de la Administración
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationCruz-Martínez, Gibrán (2017). Welfare State Development, Individual Deprivations and Income Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Social Indicators Research. 134, 955-976. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1465-4
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11205-016-1465-4
dc.identifier.issn0303-8300
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1465-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96730
dc.journal.titleSocial Indicators Research
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final979
dc.page.initial955
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordWelfare state
dc.subject.keywordInequality
dc.subject.keywordPoverty
dc.subject.keywordLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.subject.keywordMultidimensional welfare index
dc.subject.keywordRedistribution
dc.subject.ucmPolítica
dc.subject.unesco5902 Ciencias Políticas
dc.titleWelfare state development, individual deprivations and income inequality: a cross-country analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean
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