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How do work and public policies interact with child poverty?
Arcanjo, Manuela; Bastos, Amélia; Nunes, Francisco; Passos, JoséChild poverty is a problem firmly recognized in the industrialized world. In the EU nearly one in every five children was poor in 2008 (for the population as a whole the risk of poverty was around 17 per cent). The dimension of the problem and its consequences point out for the importance of knowing the processes behind it. This paper aims to investigate how labour market issues and public policies have been im...
Unemployment insurance reform – 1991–2006 : a new balance between rights an...
Arcanjo, ManuelaThe purpose of this article is twofold. First, focusing on unemployment insurance schemes, the article seeks to identify the development of social rights and obligations in four countries (France, Germany, Portugal and Spain), representative of the conservative regime, over the period 1991–2006. Second, the article aims to verify whether or not there was a common reform trajectory in time as well as in space,...
Prestações sociais no corporativismo português: a política de apoio à família n...
Pereirinha, José A.; Arcanjo, Manuela; Carolo, Daniel F.The creation of family allowances (abono de família) in 1942 was an innovative policy decision in Portugal, that became one of the few countries with this kind of social protection by the mid of 20th century. In Europe this kind of social benefit has been created few years before in Belgium (1930), France (1932), Spain (1938) and The Netherlands (1939). After this creation, this family allowance became integrat...
The Reform of Unemployment Protection Insurance, 1993-2007: the Erosion of Legi...
Arcanjo, ManuelaIn the extensive literature that has been dedicated during the past fifteen years to the analysis of the reform of the welfare states, a significant number of studies have focused on the characterisation of the nature and direction of the changes in the main social programmes. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by analysing the reform of unemployment insurance schemes between 1993 and 2007 in Franc...
Early retirement in Portugal
Albuquerque, Paula; Arcanjo, Manuela; Escária, VítorThis paper analyzes the early retirement decisions made by Portuguese workers aged 50 to 64. It investigates the main characteristics of early retirees, and the main determinants of their decision, based on the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel for Portugal, from 1994 to 2001. Several definitions of early retirement are considered in order to take into account the different pathways to retir...
Regimes and reform of welfare state : the classification of ten european countries
Arcanjo, ManuelaThis article seeks to contribute to the discussion on the current state of knowledge with regard to the clustering of European welfare states, especially the Mediterranean countries. We want to demonstrate that the reforms be carried out well, to varying degrees, over the period 1990-2006 may have contributed to a reclassification of some countries. To this end, we analyze the positioning of ten Western Europea...
Ideal (and Real) Types of Welfare State
Arcanjo, ManuelaIn the extensive literature that has been dedicated during the past fifteen years to the comparative analysis of the welfare states, a significant number of studies have focused on the identification of the ideal regimes or types, in addition to their empirical validation. The celebrated work, Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, by Esping-Andersen (1990) constituted the point of departure for a vigorous academi...
Retirement and the Poverty of the Elderly in Portugal
Albuquerque, Paula; Arcanjo, Manuela; Escária, Vítor;; Nunes, Francisco; Pereirinha, José A.The effect of retirement on economic welfare, indirectly measured by income, has not been studied widely, namely due to the lack of longitudinal data. A large literature exists about poverty in old age, mainly based on cross sectional survey data, but usually those studies are not able to study the transitional effect of retirement on income as they do not observe the workers who do retire before and after thei...
Análise e avaliação dos sistemas de segurança social : um modelo aplicado a Por...
Arcanjo, ManuelaDoutoramento em Economia
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