Producción de bienestar y estructura social en perspectiva comparada: Reino Unido, España y Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes the association between incomes and social structure, from a comparative perspective. The cases of the United Kingdom, Spain and Argentina are considered.

Our objective is to present empirical evidence that contributes to the discussion about the different institutions that participate in the provision of welfare: State, Market and Family. To do so, we breakdown incomes by source (labour and not labour), approached comparatively from the individual unit of analysis and the household one.

Microdata from the following sources will be used: the Permanent Household Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Argentina), the Survey of Conditions of the National Institute of Statistics (Spain - 2013 in each case) and its English version: Statistics of the European Union on income and living conditions (2009).

The instrument used to analyze the evolution of the class structure in relation to the labour market was the Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero (Goldthorpe and Heath, 1992) class scheme.