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Some Useful Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2023

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Daniel Béland*
Affiliation:
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Bea Cantillon
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Bent Greve
Affiliation:
Roskilde Universitet, Roskilde, Denmark
Rod Hick
Affiliation:
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Amílcar Moreira
Affiliation:
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
*
Corresponding author: Daniel Béland; Email: daniel.beland@mcgill.ca
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measuringinflationinternational inflation

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Type
Themed Section on Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living-Crisis
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 23 , Issue 1: THEMED SECTION: Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living-Crisis , January 2024 , pp. 240 - 241
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

The following is a list of learning and research resources on topics that are central to this themed section, namely on the methodological issues involved in the measurement of inflation; key databases on inflation and its key components; the distributional consequences of inflation; the central role of indexation mechanisms for securing the adequacy of welfare benefits and avoid fiscal drag effects in the taxing of incomes; the policy responses to the current cost-of-living crisis in advanced economies; and the policy responses to previous inflationary and economic crises and welfare regimes.

References

Measuring inflation

Clark, T. (2001) ‘Comparing measures of core inflation’, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, 86, 2, 5–31.Google Scholar
Eurostat (2022) ‘Beginners: Inflation’, Statistics Explained, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/SEPDF/cache/63284.pdf Google Scholar
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International inflation databases

EUROSTAT (2023a) ‘HICP – Monthly data (Annual rate of change) [PRC_HICP_MANR]’, [update 17.05.2023, accessed 08.06.2023].Google Scholar
EUROSTAT (2023b) HICP – Contributions to EA annual inflation (in percentage points) [PRC_HICP_CTRB] [update: 17.05.2023, accessed 08.06.2023].Google Scholar
Ha, J., Kose, M. and Ohnsorge, F. (2021) One-Stop Source: A Global Database of Inflation (Policy Research Working Paper 9737), Washington DC: World Bank. https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/inflation-database [Last accessed 14 October 2023].Google Scholar
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Distributional effects of inflation

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Inflation, indexation and social protection

Fernandez, J. (2012) ‘Explaining the introduction of automatic pension indexation provisions in 17 OECD countries, 1945–2000’, Journal of European Social Policy, 22, 3, 241–258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Historical perspectives on previous inflationary and economic crises

Gourevitch, P. A. (1986) Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
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Policy responses to cost-of-living crisis

For in-Depth National Case-Studies on the Netherlands, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Croatia and Germany, https://www.boeckler.de/en/globale-suche.htm?searchTerm=Inflation+and+counter-inflationary+policy+measures [accessed 14.10.2023].Google Scholar
Gentilini, U., Almenfi, M., Iyengar, H. TMM, Okamura, Y., Urteaga, E.R., Valleriani, G., Vulembera Muhindo, J. and Aziz, S. (2022) ‘Tracking global social protection responses to price shocks,’ 2208. Social Protection & Jobs. Washington, DC: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/34b119bd-1b4d-5210-a4b8-904bcf106196/content Google Scholar
Sgaravatti, G., Tagliapietra, S., Trasi, C. and Zachmann, G. (2021) ‘National policies to shield consumers from rising energy prices.’ Bruegel Datasets, https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/national-policies-shield-consumers-rising-energy-prices [updated 24.03.2023].Google Scholar

Welfare regimes

Blum, S., Kuhlmann, J. and Schubert, K. (2020) The Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems. Routledge.Google Scholar
Esping-Andersen, J. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity. Google Scholar
Greve, B. (2019) Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxon. Routledge.Google Scholar
Powell, M. and Barrientos, A. (2004) ‘Welfare regimes and the welfare mix,’ European Journal of Political Research, 43, 1, 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2004.00146.x CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rice, D. (2013) ‘Beyond welfare regimes: From empirical typology to conceptual ideal types.’ Social Policy & Administration, 47, 1, 93–110.Google Scholar