How welfare regimes generate and erode social capital: The impact of underclass phenomena

Comparative Politics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-101

  Larsen, Christian Albrekt ^a  

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EID: 36849090477     PISSN: 00104159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5129/001041507X12911361134479     Document Type: Article

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30. The countries included are the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Great Britain, West Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. In the data set, a missing case is deleted listwise. Thus, in Table 2 19,868 answered all of the questions in the regression. The number in Table 3 is 20,580.
31. Larsen.
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33. The Gini-coefficients were taken from the Luxembourg Income Study website. As the initial point, we used surveys from 1991 in Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., from 1992 in Sweden and Belgium, and from 1994 in Austria. As the end point we used surveys from 1997 in Belgium and Austria, from 1999 in the Netherlands and the U.K., and from 2000 in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy, the U.S., and Canada. From Denmark we used 1990 and 2000 figures from the Danish Ministry of Finance (2002). We have not been able to find comparable indicators for Portugal, but see the text. 26. Danish Ministry of Finance, Fordeling og incitamenter 2002 (Copenhagen: Finansministeriet, 2002).
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