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Title: On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union

Author(s): Tim Coelli, Mathieu Lefebvre, Sergio Perelman and Pierre Pestieau

Publication Date: November 2010

Keyword(s): best practice frontier, performance measure and social protection

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 27 European welfare states (EU27) in 2008. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number methods similar to those employed in the construction of the widely used Human Development Index (HDI). These are compared with alternative measures derived from data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. We are particularly interested by the comparison between EU15 and the 12 newcomers. As it will appear among the newcomers some countries are ranking among the top performers and others are relegated in the bottom of the ranking.

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Coelli, T, Lefebvre, M, Perelman, S and Pestieau, P. 2010. 'On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8096