Abstract
When people are unable to provide for themselves through work, the first piece of the social safety net is social insurance. The term “welfare state” is used to refer broadly to the sum of social insurance programs, as well as sometimes the additional social policies that come after social insurance. While each country’s broad social policy design differs from the others along many dimensions, two typologies are generally used to classify welfare state design: the Esping-Andersen classification and Bismarckian vs Beveridge.
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Hevenstone, D. (2015). Social Insurance: Health, Pensions, and Long-Term Care. In: The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436306_5
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