scholarly journals The Age-Orientation of Social Policy Regimes in OECD Countries

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Policy Regimes

scholarly journals The Age-Orientation of Social Policy Regimes in OECD Countries

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA LYNCH
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Demographic Structure ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Education And Health

This article presents a series of measures of the extent to which social policies in twenty-one OECD countries are oriented towards the support of elderly (over 65 or in formal retirement) and non-elderly (under 65 and not retired) population groups. Employing breakdowns by age in spending on social insurance, education and health, tax expenditures on welfare substituting goods, and housing policy outcomes, this article shows that countries tend to demonstrate a consistent age-orientation across a variety of policy areas and instruments. After correcting for the demographic structure of the population, Greece, Japan, Italy, Spain and the United States have the most elderly-oriented social policy regimes, while the Netherlands, Ireland, Canada and the Nordic countries have a more age-neutral repertoire of social policies. In identifying the age-orientation of social policy as a dimension of distributive politics that is not captured by other welfare state typologies, this article suggests the need to develop new accounts of the development of welfare states that include the dimension of age.

Gender and the Welfare State: New Research on the Origins and Consequences of Social Policy Regimes

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Morgan ◽  
Kees van Kersbergen ◽  
Suzanne Mettler ◽  
Julia O'Connor ◽  
Ann Shola Orloff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Welfare State

Welfare Efforts in Comparative Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-89
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Eibl
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Regime Formation ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Expenditures ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

This chapter provides an analytical overview of welfare provision in labour· abundant MENA regimes. Organized in sections by country and covering the period from regime formation until the late 2000s, the chapter pays particular attention to spending levels and the accessibility of social policies, and maps the eigbt regimes onto the three different pathways of welfare provision outlined in Chapter I. It draws on a combination of historical reports and statistics, available secondary accounts, and a novel dataset on social expenditures developed from archival material of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It also diversifies the picture by examining policies of education, health, and social protection separately. The chapter lays important groundwork for further analyses and gives a more complete sense of social policy regimes beyond the social spending figures presented in Chapter I.

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