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Sprache(n):
eng - English
Datum:
2013-12-172013
Publikationsstatus:
Erschienen
Seiten:
XLIX, 170, 4
Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe:
Cologne : University of Cologne
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction
The Argument
State of the Art
Contribution
Case Selection
A Brief Note on Data
Overview
Acknowledgments
1 Social Policy Preferences from a Comparative Perspective
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Social Policy Preferences and the Welfare State
1.3 Theoretical Framework
1.3.1 Social Policy Preferences and Context
1.3.2 The Dysfunctional Equivalent: The Size of the Informal Sector and
Corruption
1.4 Empirical Strategy
1.4.1 Dependent Variables: Welfare Demand and Redistribution
1.4.2 Independent Variables
1.4.3 Controls
1.4.4 Case Selection
1.4.5 Model: Hierarchical Random-Intercept Model
1.5 Result
1.6 Robustness Tests
1.6.1 Stepwise Inclusion
1.6.2 Logistic Hierarchical Model
1.7 Conclusion
1.8 Appendix
2 Public versus Private Welfare Provision
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Theoretical Framework: Social Policy Preferences in a Stratified Labor
Market
2.2.1 The Informal Sector
2.2.2 The Exclusion Hypothesis
2.2.3 The Solidarity Hypothesis
2.3 Social Policy in Latin America
2.4 Statistical Strategy, Data, and Variables
2.4.1 Dependent Variable
2.4.2 Explanatory Variables: Size of the Informal Sector and Income
Group
2.4.3 Controls
2.4.4 Model
2.5 Results
2.5.1 Average Impact of the Informal Sector
2.5.2 Cross-Level Interactions
2.5.3 Cross-Level Interactions for the Full Sample
2.6 Conclusion
2.7 Appendix
2.8 Supplementary Material
3 Labour Market Stratification and Social Policy in Latin America
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Theoretical framework
3.2.1 Informal workers
3.2.2 The welfare system in Latin America and the Caribbean
3.2.3 Economic self-interest and economic uncertainty
3.2.4 Socio-economic differences and similarities
3.2.5 The formal–informal preference differential
3.3 Empirical strategy – variable description and model specification
3.3.1 Explanatory variables
3.3.2 Control variables
3.3.3 Model specification
3.4 Results
3.4.1 Economic insecurity: Who is at risk?
3.4.2 The influence of labour market status on social policy preferences
3.4.3 Social policy preferences of formal and informal sector workers
3.4.4 Social policy preferences and the context of uncertainty
3.5 Conclusion
3.6 Appendix
3.7 Supplementary Material
4 Social Policy and the Informal Sector
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Who are the Informals?
4.3 The Latin American Welfare State
4.4 The Argument: Motives for Informalization
4.4.1 Individual Factors
4.4.2 Public Transfers, Institutional Quality, and Informalization
4.4.3 Government Perception and Society
4.5 Empirical Setup
4.5.1 Estimation Model and Variable Description
4.6 Results
4.6.1 Education and Family Background
4.6.2 The Exit Seekers: Perception of the Government
4.6.3 The Exit Seekers: Public Transfers and Institutional Quality
4.6.4 Sensitivity Tests
4.7 Conclusion
4.8 Appendix
4.9 Supplementary Material
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
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