Childcare services in 25 European union member states: The Barcelona targets revisited

Plantenga, Janneke; Remery, Chantal; Siegel, Melissa; Sementini, Loredana

doi:10.1016/s0195-6310(07)00001-4

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“…5 Length of leave and income replacement are two quite distinct dimensions. In order to assess the degree to which family care is actively supported through public resources, following Plantenga et al (2007), we construct an indicator of 'effective parental leave': the length of paid maternity and parental leave in weeks is weighted by the income replacement rate (measured in relation to the average net wage). 6 In all countries, leaves only concern officially working parents.…”

Section: Responsibilities Towards Childrenmentioning

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Can We Identify Intergenerational Policy Regimes in Europe?

2010

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This paper examines whether it is possible to recognise specific patterns of institutionally regulated downward (towards children) and upward (towards the old) intergenerational obligations with regard to care and financial support, and to identify specific country profiles and clusters of countries in Europe. Based on the three-fold conceptualisation of familialism by default, supported familialism and de-familialisation, and using a complex set of indicators, we describe how countries, by means of policies, allocate intergenerational responsibilities between families and the state, also paying attention to their gender impact. The study includes all 27 EU countries and for the first time offers a comparative overview of a diversified set of policies with regard to both children and the old. It concludes that although specific policy profiles emerge with regard to the two sets of obligations, these do not always coincide. Furthermore, contrary to widespread opinion, supported familialism and de-familialisation are not always contrasting policy approaches. In some countries, they actually represent part of an integrated approach to public support of intergenerational obligations. Moreover, the gender impact of supported familialism may be different and even contrary, depending on the specific instrument. Finally, once the road of oversimplification is excluded, only one statistically sound cluster of countries emerges. It is, however, possible to detect groups of countries that are similar. These only partly overlap with prevalent welfare regime types.

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Section: Responsibilities Towards Childrenmentioning

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“…6. Deviating from Plantenga et al (2007), we have chosen the average and not the minimum wage, as we believe it offers a more realistic approximation of the actual compensation rate. 7.…”

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Can We Identify Intergenerational Policy Regimes in Europe?

2010

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“…We use two indicators to measure this dimension. The childcare coverage rate is one of the most commonly used indicators of formal childcare iii Childcare coverage rates refer to the usage of formal childcare, and are generally interpreted as indicators of formal childcare supply, since this is lower than demand in most countries (Plantenga et al 2008). Nevertheless, they relate to uptakes, and are not easily converted to common standards, given that each country has its own constellation of care , and it represents the number of children cared for in public or private facilities for at least one hour as proportion of all children of the same age group.…”

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After the Male Breadwinner Model? Childcare Services and the Division of Labor in European Countries

Ciccia

Bleijenbergh

2014

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & S

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Fundamental reforms in childcare services appear to have eroded traditional support to the male breadwinner model across European states. There has been a strong debate about the direction of these changes, and the ways in which childcare services can alter the division of labour and promote gender equality. This paper deals with these issues by using fuzzy set ideal type analysis to assess the conformity of childcare service provisions in European economies to Fraser's four ideal typical models: male breadwinner, caregiver parity, universal breadwinner and universal caregiver. We find that there is resilience of traditional gender roles in the majority of European countries, while there are different variants of the universal breadwinner shaping different forms of childcare policies. The more equalitarian universal caregiver model maintains its utopian character.

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“…Consequently, female employment is challenged when childcare is not available, when the price is too high, or when availability or opening hours are inadequate (Hertz 1986). Compared across Europe, Germany, along with Austria, Greece, Italy, and Spain score quite unfavorably with a public and private childcare coverage rate below 10 percent for children under the age of three (Plantenga et al 2008). The inadequacy of childcare services reproduces institutionalized gendered expectations that conceive and depend upon mothers as primary caregivers.…”

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment

Leuze¹,

Rusconi

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractOccupational sex segregation is a persistent source of social inequalities. The increasing participation of women in tertiary education and rising female employment rates, however, have given hope that gender inequalities will decline as a result of growing female opportunities for high skill employment in the service sector, e.g. the professions. This paper asks whether such optimistic accounts are justified by comparing male and female professional career trajectories in Germany. Our main assumptions hold that, even today, strong gender differences continue to exist between public and private sector professions, which are further aggravated by different forms of family commitment. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that even among highly qualified men and women, important patterns of sex segregation are present. An initial horizontal segregation between public and private sectors brings about "equal, but different" career prospects, which in the phase of family formation turn into vertical segregation, promoting "different and therefore unequal" labor market chances. Key words: professions, sex seg...

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Childcare services in 25 European union member states: The Barcelona targets revisited

Cited by 50 publications

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Can We Identify Intergenerational Policy Regimes in Europe?

Can We Identify Intergenerational Policy Regimes in Europe?

After the Male Breadwinner Model? Childcare Services and the Division of Labor in European Countries

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment

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