Pder, Kaire; Kerem, Kaie - In: Eastern European Economics 49 (2011) 5, pp. 55-74
We show that principal component analysis enables the construction of geographic divisions of European social modelsNordic, Anglo-Saxon, Mediterranean, Continental, and Postcommunist, that basically follow Esping-Andersen's (1990) welfare regime typology. Instead of Esping-Andersen's criteria of...