Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity: Pitfalls and possibilities

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1251-1266

  Ferrarini, Tommy ^a   Nelson, Kenneth ^a   Korpi, Walter ^a   Palme, Joakim ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset; social citizenship; Social Citizenship Indicator Programme; validity of social insurance replacement rates; welfare state retrenchment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883468540     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2013.822907     Document Type: Article

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