COELLI, Tim; LEFEBVRE, Mathieu; PESTIEAU, Pierre - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess the performance of 15 European welfare states (EU15) over a ten-year period from 1995 to 2004. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number...