Análise da taxinomia dos sistemas de bem-estar dos países da OECD

Abstract

Based on the Esping-Andersen typology (EA, 1990), our article seeks to classify the systems of 35 OECD member countries, through social, economic, and cultural indicators, in a combination of factorial and cluster analysis. As main contributions: 1) We evaluated the EA typology producing the Liberal, Conservative and Social-Democratic types. However, there was a significant change of position between the countries towards the Social-Democratic cluster. 2) Our results highlighted two new types, one formed by Post-Communist countries, which makes us accept that their welfare systems are still unstable, and another formed only by the United States, which denotes a gradual disappearance of the group. Liberal, due to increased social spending; 3) We identify that Latin countries have evolved into one of three traditional types.