Relationships between renewable energy consumption, social factors, and health: A panel vector auto regression analysis of a cluster of 12 EU countries

G Caruso, E Colantonio, SA Gattone - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the key indicators of a population's well-being and the economic development of a
country is represented by health, the main proxy for which is life expectancy at birth. Some …

Infrastructure and growth: A survey of macro-econometric research

T Välilä - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020 - Elsevier
The voluminous macro-econometric research on the link between infrastructure and growth
over the past decades has been inconclusive. The heterogeneity of empirical results can be …

Do public policies reduce social exclusion? The role of national and supranational economic tools

A Ferraro, M Cerciello, M Agovino, A Garofalo - Structural Change and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Social Exclusion is a major concern for EU institutions and several instruments have been
devised to counter it. This work aims to assess the role played by policy measures in fighting …

[HTML][HTML] Social expenditure composition and inequality: A dynamic panel threshold analysis for OECD countries

P Bação, J Duarte, M Pereira, M Simões - European Journal of Political …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the relationship between inequality and public social spending for an
overall sample of 28 OECD countries spanning 1997 to 2017. We add to the literature by …

[HTML][HTML] Social expenditure composition, inequality and growth in the OECD: Labour market policies are most effective

P Bação, J Duarte, M Simões - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2024 - Elsevier
The literature on public social expenditure envisages a role for the composition of public
social expenditure in the design of policies to reduce inequality and promote economic …

Towards Greener Futures: Investigating the Nexus of Social, Human, and Institutional Capital in Sustainable Waste Management

P Cascioli, D D'Ingiullo, D Furia, I Odoardi… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sustainable development is increasingly recognized for its reliance on grassroots, bottom-
up practices embedded in local communities. The economic literature has tested various …

Dimensions of globalisation and social welfare policies in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries

M Santos, M Simões - … of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2021 - cambridge.org
Which dimensions of globalisation have an impact on social expenditure? How do different
social welfare policies react to globalisation? This paper addresses these questions …

Globalisation, welfare models and social expenditure in OECD countries

M Santos, M Simões - Open Economies Review, 2021 - Springer
What difference do welfare models make for how globalisation in its different manifestations
influences the composition of social expenditure? Using data for 36 Organisation for …

Health human capital formation in the OECD: Exploring the role of welfare state composition

M Santos, M Simões, S Sousa - Economics & Politics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the relationship between welfare state or social expenditure
composition and health human capital in 37 OECD countries spanning 1980–2018. Our …

A regional perspective on social exclusion in European regions: context, trends and policy implications

M Agovino, M Cerciello, A Ferraro, A Garofalo - Italian Economic Journal, 2022 - Springer
Social exclusion has become a popular topic in the policy agendas of European
governments, especially after the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 hit the continent as …