01198pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002100040245005200061260000900113300001400122362000800136520074300144650001800887650001800905650001800923700002200941700001800963773003500981180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNavarro, Vicente  aIs globalisation undermining the welfare state?  c2004  ap.133-52.  aJan  aThis paper analyses the evolution of the welfare states in the majority of OECD countries during the pre-globalisation (1946-80) and globalisation (1980-2000) periods. Our purpose is to find out whether globalisation has produced a convergence towards a smaller welfare state, funded increasingly by non-mobile factors such as labour, property and consumption rather than by mobile factors such as capital. The data presented here challenge the claims about such a convergence, showing that social public expenditures and public employment have continued to expand during the globalisation period in most OECD countries. We also show that the welfare states remain rooted in the political traditions that have governed them. - Reproduced.  aSocial policy  aWelfare state  aGlobalization  aAstudillo, Javier  aSchmitt, John  aCambridge Journal of Economics