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Welfare State Regimes and Reforms: A Classification of Ten European Countries between 1990 and 2006

2011; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1474746410000497

1475-3073

Manuela Arcanjo,

Retirement, Disability, and Employment

As from the beginning of the 1990s, almost all European countries have introduced wide-reaching social changes, among others in eligibility, entitlement, benefits structures and in the sources of financing. In this article, we propose that a consequence of those reforms may have been a repositioning of some countries in the welfare clusters. To test this hypothesis, we apply the two bi-dimensional classifications of Bonoli (1997) and Kautto (2002) to ten countries as representative of different welfare regimes. Our results reveal an interesting repositioning of some countries, especially Portugal, the UK and Sweden that represents evidence of welfare state reforms.