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Conference
on Economic and Social Dimensions of EU Enlargement
Brussels/Belgium,
16 November 2000
Session
3 :
Social
security reform: is it a different issue for accession countries?
by Zsuza
Ferge, University of Budapest
Is there a "European
model" of social security?
The European
welfare states as they evolved after the second World War differed
widely. Social policy specialists still debate (indeed, this is one
of the favourite topics for debate) to how many types they belong,
and how should one label these types. G. Esping-Andersen identified
three types of welfare regime in his seminal and widely quoted book,
namely the 'liberal', the 'conservative-corporatist', and the 'liberal
socialist' types. Since then various other categories have been distinguished,
from a Christian democratic type to the Latin rim or South European
welfare states. MORE...
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