Boosting work through welfare? Individual-level employment outcomes of social investment across European welfare states through the Great Recession

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad039

S. Ronchi

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Abstract

Given the heterogeneity of European welfare states, governments’ efforts in ‘social investment’ reform may reap different outcomes in different national contexts. Through multi-level modelling based on longitudinal microdata from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2004–2013) and on country-level policy indicators, this article assesses: whether citizens of countries that put higher budgetary efforts into social investment have better employment prospects and whether increasing such efforts over time improves employment chances within a country; whether people living in social investment-oriented welfare states maintained higher employment chances in the years of the Great Recession; whether micro-level employment outcomes depend on (in-)complementarities between investment- and protection-oriented policies. The results reveal that the most social investment-oriented welfare states show higher individual-level employment chances, which they were able to preserve during the Great Recession. However, increasing resources on social investments does not always yield empirically discernible returns over the short-to-medium term.

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通过福利促进工作?大衰退期间欧洲福利国家社会投资的个人层面就业结果

鉴于欧洲福利国家的异质性，政府在“社会投资”改革方面的努力可能会在不同的国家背景下获得不同的结果。通过基于欧盟收入和生活条件统计(2004-2013)纵向微观数据和国家一级政策指标的多层次建模，本文评估了:在社会投资方面投入更多预算努力的国家的公民是否有更好的就业前景，以及随着时间的推移增加这种努力是否会改善国内的就业机会;生活在以社会投资为导向的福利国家的人们在大衰退时期是否保持了更高的就业机会;微观层面的就业结果是否取决于以投资和保护为导向的政策之间的互补性。结果显示，最注重社会投资的福利国家显示出更高的个人层面就业机会，这在大衰退期间得以保持。然而，在中短期内，增加社会投资资源并不总能产生经验上可辨别的回报。

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