1. Alike but not alike: Welfare state and unemployment policies in Southern Europe. Italy and Portugal compared.
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Baglioni, Simone and Mota, Luis F. Oliveira
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WELFARE state , *UNEMPLOYMENT policy , *COMPARATIVE studies , *HYBRID systems , *UNEMPLOYMENT - Abstract
Although Italy and Portugal are considered to be part of the same welfare state family - the Southern European one - analysis of a key component of the welfare state, namely, unemployment policies and regulations, reveals a different evaluation. A comparative analysis of a series of specific indicators of Italian and Portuguese unemployment regimes shows that they represent two different models. Portugal appears to be a more inclusive system, closer to continental or Northern European countries than it is to Italy, or at least representing a hybrid system that combines characteristics of continental European welfare states with characteristics that are more typical of Southern European welfare states. Italy, on the contrary, is much more clearly a Southern European welfare state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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