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Varieties of Asian welfare capitalisms and the influence of globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Hironori Tohyama
Hironori Tohyama*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
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Abstract

Asian welfare capitalisms as well as advanced economies face the risks associated with globalization. In order to understand how Asian welfare capitalisms respond to globalization, it is essential to describe the institutional diversity of Asian welfare capitalisms and the welfare–risk nexus. This paper defines four types of Asian welfare capitalisms based on social spending data and investigates the welfare–risk nexus by focusing on globalization risks, such as a globalized production process, trade openness, and financial integration. The empirical results based on multiple factor analysis and cluster analysis clearly show that Asian welfare capitalisms are heterogeneous and that four clusters can be found in the welfare–risk nexus based on the dimensions present in Asian economies in the 2000s. This analysis stresses that globalization has different effects on these types of Asian welfare capitalisms according to their welfare–risk nexuses.

Keywords

Asian economiesvarieties of capitalismglobalizationwelfare capitalisminstitutionmultiple factor analysiscluster analysis
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Research Article
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 51 - 73
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Copyright © 2014 Taylor & Francis

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