Territorial efficiency of social spending in Spain

García-Luque, Olga; Lafuente-Lechuga, Matilde; Faura-Martínez, Úrsula

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Territorial efficiency of social spending in Spain

dc.contributor.author	García-Luque, Olga
dc.contributor.author	Lafuente-Lechuga, Matilde
dc.contributor.author	Faura-Martínez, Úrsula
dc.contributor.department	Economía Aplicada
dc.coverage.spatial	España	es
dc.coverage.temporal	2012-2017	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-30T18:52:58Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-30T18:52:58Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-12
dc.description	©<2022>.This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [International Journal of Social Economics]. To access the final edited and published work see [https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-11-2020-0779]	es
dc.description.abstract	Purpose – Regional disparities in social risk levels threaten social cohesion in Spain, which cannot be justified by the territorial differences in social spending per capita. These divergences may encourage and spread nationalist positions and populist discourses. The objective of this paper is to examine the efficiency of social policies (health, education and social protection) aimed at reducing the risk of exclusion across Spanish autonomous communities. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare each autonomous community. The analysis will determine whether the autonomies’ resources (inputs or social spending in this case) are appropriately translated into goods and/or services (outputs or social cohesion), and which regions are more efficient in doing so. Findings – This work contributes to sustaining DEA analysis in the study of social policy efficiency, as it reveals the regions that have better adjustments between social investment and social results from a global perspective, as well as from the different intervention areas. The authors also provide a ranking of regions based on their relative efficiency, estimating a possible margin of improvement in the results. Originality/value – It is unusual to include the disaggregated analysis of social spending in efficiency studies using DEA at regional level. Therefore, this is an innovative analysis compared to most extended models that are mainly concerned with health or education expenditure, which are also considered in this study.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	24	es
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Social Economics, 49 (2), 153-175 (2022)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-11-2020-0779
dc.identifier.issn	0306-8293
dc.identifier.issn	1758-6712
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138204
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSE-11-2020-0779/full/html	es
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Social spending	es
dc.subject	Social exclusion	es
dc.subject	Regional disparities	es
dc.subject	Efficiency	es
dc.subject	DEA	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales	es
dc.title	Territorial efficiency of social spending in Spain	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es