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Luis Ayala-Cañón1, María Jesús Delgado-Rodríguez2, Sonia De Lucas-Santos3
1Facultad de Derecho, UNED, OC/Obispo Trejo 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
This paper expands the analysis of the cyclical characteristics of social spending by providing information on its joint behaviour across OECD countries. With this aim we propose the use of dynamic factor analysis and recursive models to estimate synchronization and cyclicality of social policies within a broad perspective. By considering the synchronization of social spending it is possible to assess the short-run characteristics of the joint response to changes in the economic cycle. We find that synchronization of social spending was only possible for advanced economies, achieving the highest countercyclical stabilization effect during the Global Financial Crisis. Emerging market economies are not able to join the synchronized response, maintaining independent and, in most cases, procyclical stances in the behaviour of their social policies.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10663-022-09545-w.
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