Benefit Dependency and the Dynamics of the Welfare State: Comparing Sweden and the Netherlands

Autor: Michiel Van Leuvensteijn, Marcel Einerhand, Ingemar Eriksson
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: International Social Security Review. 54:3-17
ISSN: 1468-246X
0020-871X
DOI: 10.1111/1468-246x.00082
Popis: In this article we analyse the dynamics of the welfare state, focusing on the Netherlands and Sweden. The basic question is whether the different social systems of these countries result in differences in persistency of benefit dependency. We conclude that although benefit dependency at a macroeconomic level is more or less the same, patterns of mobility of individuals between benefits and jobs are different. These different patterns are partly explained by overrepresentation of benefits with a high degree of persistency in the Netherlands. This overrepresentation is, however, not sufficient to account for the large differences observed in dynamics. Characteristics of the welfare state account for that.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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