Prague Economic Papers 2022, 31(2):119-142 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.798

Redistributive Policies of EU Member Countries in the Context of Welfare Regimes

Peter Tóth ORCID...a, Andrea Tkáčová ORCID...a, Katarína Muµováa
a Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Koąice, Slovakia

This paper aims to use cluster analysis to monitor changes in the social regimes of EU countries in the context of their economic situation. In the first step, the paper provides an overview of theoretical studies and categorizes countries into individual social regimes based on available studies. Subsequently, hierarchical cluster analyses are performed for 2007 and 2019, one for a group of redistributive variables and one for socio-economic variables. The cluster analysis confirmed that differences among individual social regimes are blurred over time, and belonging to a social regime does not automatically lead to occurrence in the same cluster. The new and old member states are mixed in terms of redistributive variables, while economic differences among these countries are still present.

Klíčová slova: Redistributive policy, welfare regimes, social equality, EU countries
JEL classification: C01, H53, I31, R13

Vloľeno: 18. listopad 2021; Revidováno: 4. leden 2022; Přijato: 3. únor 2022; Zveřejněno online: 25. březen 2022; Zveřejněno: 9. květen 2022  Zobrazit citaci

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Tóth, P., Tkáčová, A., & Muµová, K. (2022). Redistributive Policies of EU Member Countries in the Context of Welfare Regimes. Prague Economic Papers31(2), 119-142. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.798
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