Building the Eco-social State: Do Welfare Regimes Matter?

Gender inequalities in mental wellbeing in 26 European countries: do welfare regimes matter?

BACKGROUND Nature and extent of welfare regimes and social policies are important determinants of health and health inequalities. This study examines the association of gender and mental wellbeing in European countries and investigates whether type of welfare regime plays a role in this association. METHOD Data of 19 366 women and 14 338 men of the third round of the European Quality of Life ...

Income Inequality Do Exchange Rate Regimes Matter?

In a recent report by the United Nations Development Programme it was argued that the two corner solutions dictated under the Washington Consensus have had adverse impacts on inequality, for they put developing economies at the risk of currency crises and large currency devaluations. The present paper thus intends to extend the discussion on optimal exchange rate regimes to the issue of income ...

Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency ?

This paper investigates neighborhood peer eff ects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with aggregated zip code level-information. The results suggest that individual welfare use is positively co...

Welfare Measures with Risk: Do Distributions Matter?

Mortality risks from exposure to many common environmental contaminants are often difficult to know with certainty, leading some people to form different perceptions of those risks. Recent work by Hurley and Shogren (2005) and Hill, Perry and Willis (2005) suggest that subjects often base their assessment of uncertain risks on the mode, rather than the mean, of the distribution pertaining to th...

Providing Welfare: The Importance of Public or Private Actors in Welfare State Regimes