Social Protection in Latin America
Causality, Stratification and Outcomes
Abstract
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement savings, and social assistance. The middle chapters study social protection’s main stratification effects, focussing on stratification effects on employment, protection, and worker incorporation. The later chapters then assess social protection outcomes and identify country groupings including their evolution over time. The book, and its approach and findings, contributes to the advancement of a theory of social protection amongst late industrialisers. This is an open access book.
Keywords
Global South; Global Social Policy; Southern welfare; Welfare state; Employment; InequalityDOI
10.1007/978-3-031-49795-7ISBN
9783031497957, 9783031497940, 9783031497957Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2024Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanSeries
Global Dynamics of Social Policy,Classification
Social welfare and social services
Regional, state and other local government
Comparative politics
Welfare economics
Sociology
Politics and government