| Abstract [eng] |
58 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables, 73 references The aim of the work is to evaluate and determine the models of the welfare state of foreign countries and the variables describing them. The work consists of an introduction, three chapters, conclusions and recommendations. An analysis of the literature has led to the conclusion that the welfare state is a set of policy measures applied in the state. Such a set or state welfare policy can be seen as a commitment of the state to ensure a certain standard of welfare that guarantees economic, health care and social security guarantees. The most widely used classification of the welfare state in European countries into models such as the continental welfare state model; The Scandinavian welfare state model; the Anglo-Saxon model of the welfare state; The welfare state model of southern European countries; the model of the new Member States. The cluster analysis using the values of the variables describing the welfare state of various European countries revealed that the resulting clusters coincide with the welfare state models. The Scandinavian welfare model includes countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. The countries of such a continental welfare model, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria, are closer to the Scandinavian welfare state model. The countries of the Southern European welfare state model, such as Italy and Spain, have shifted towards the continental welfare state model. There has also been a marked shift in the Czech Republic and Poland towards the Continental welfare state model. The Baltic States can be grouped together with Portugal and Greece as representatives of the Southern European welfare model. A cluster has been singled out, which may include as many as three groups of countries with different welfare state models, which have so far reached a similar level of development in terms of the welfare regime. It cannot be ruled out that Portugal and Greece, Hungary and Slovakia and the Baltic States in this cluster, together with Bulgaria and Croatia, may be grouped together. |
