Updated 5/21/05 to VErsion 1.1 (Changes do not reflect replacement rate tables)

Codebook
Summary Dataset (Excel) (Stata w/ code for decommodification index)    Decommodification Index (Excel)
         Replacement Rate Datasets

Unemployment Minimum Pension
Maternity [NA]

Sickness Standard Pension
Child Benefit [NA]

Insured Population Dataset
All data sets and codebook

Please send any papers using the dataset (or questions and comments) to me at lyle.scruggs@uconn.edu

Recent Papers

Redistributive Consequences of Welfare State Entitlements (May 2005)
    Presented at the Maxwell European Union Center, Syracuse Univ. for a conference "Democracy, Inequality and Representation: Europe in Comparative Perspective"
Welfare State Generosity Across Space and Time (May 2005)   Paper   Figures
    Presented at the Centre for Comparative Welfare State Research, Univ. of Stirling for a conference "Exploring the Dynamics of Welfare Reform"
Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision (with James Allan) (May 2005)
Forthcoming in European Journal of Social Policy. Earlier version presented at Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Kent, and Univ. of York.
Welfare State Decommodification and Poverty in Advanced Industrial Democracies (with James Allen)
    Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies (October 2006) Earlier version presented Council for European Studies Conference of Europeanists, Chicago 2004 and APSA 2004 (original)
Research on Globalization and the Welfare State: Do We Know What We Think We Know? (May 2004)
Presented at a conference on Globalization and Equity at Duke University.
Trends in Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1972-2000 (with James Allen) (August 2003)
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies (with James Allen) (July 2004)    [Replication DATA]
Published in American Journal of Political Science 48(3), July 2004, 493-512. (This is an shortened and updated version of the 2002 CES paper.)

Unemployment	Minimum Pension	Maternity [NA]
Sickness	Standard Pension	Child Benefit [NA]