RT Journal Article
T1 Welfare state development, individual deprivations and income inequality: a cross-country analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean
A1 Cruz Martínez, Gibrán Alberto
AB The purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possibleexistence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare statedevelopment (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness,democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatoryvariables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this papershows that there is no evidence of a common path followed by countries with a relativelyhigh/medium WSD. Nevertheless, countries that experienced a low economic/industrialdevelopment combined with a low democratic experience were conditioned to have a lowWSD.
PB Springer
SN 0303-8300
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96730
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96730
LA eng
NO Cruz-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
NO Several 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 hasbeen 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 inLatin America and the Caribbean, before and after controlling for demographic and cyclical factors.The WS is operationalized taking into account its multidimensional nature. Three individualdeprivations suffered by people on poverty and two income inequality indicators are used as dependentvariables. Three pooled time-series cross-section regression analyses with panel-corrected standarderrors models were carried out on 18 countries in the region around 2000, 2005 and 2010. This papershows that the development of social-welfare programs and institutions seems to be an effective wayof tackling individual deprivations suffered by people on poverty in the region. On the other hand, theWS development didn’t appear to be effective to reduce income inequality. The outcomes of welfareinstitutions appear to be the pivotal dimension to reduce income inequality and income deprivations inthe region.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 oct 2024