"Social Models" in a European Comparison

Põder, Kaire; Kerem, Kaie

doi:10.2753/eee0012-8775490503

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“…A decade later, the findings of the current study appear to indicate a persistent tension between policy diffusion (Fenger, 2007) where on paper generous care leaving policy embraces transferred ideas about rights and actual path‐dependency (i.e., an endurance of communist legacies) through lack of implementation and the continuity of the deficit discourse. The ‘neglectful state’ discourse appears to confirm a low social protection model (Põder & Kerem, 2011). This might explain the vulnerability to reversal of these generous measures.…”

Section: Absent Discourses As Proposed Avenues For Actionmentioning

confidence: 94%

From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania

Anghel

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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This paper explores discourses that have informed debates concerning care leavers in Romania over the last 50 years to understand why rights‐based reforms introduced in the mid‐2000s have been difficult to implement. The discussion is based on the analysis of a maximum variation sample of 40 documents published between 1951 and 2018. Across two historical periods during and after communism, framed by three political events which changed significantly the context of public childcare and leaving care, this paper explores how dominant discourses on ‘public childcare’, ‘care leavers’ and ‘children's rights’ have evolved, what mechanisms established them and with what consequences. The analysis revealed the stealthy presence of a ‘dinosaur discourse’ of deficit and ‘undeserving’, unsuccessfully challenged by the rights discourse, which alongside a neglectful attitude to social protection, informs the practice and ultimately the experience of public childcare and leaving care. However, the growing and increasingly clear voice of care‐leaver activists counterbalances this through a new narrative of strengths, value and capability aiming towards concrete change from below. The paper proposes a number of ‘absent discourses’ that could offer a powerful context for this new voice and avenues for meaningful action, with implications for research.

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Section: Absent Discourses As Proposed Avenues For Actionmentioning

confidence: 94%

From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania

Anghel

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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“…Esping-Andersen, 1990; Arts and Gelissen, 2006) and that some CEE welfare states are catching up with Western Europe (Manning, 2004;Vasconcelos Ferreira and Figueiredo, 2005). However, other studies found empirical support for the argument that the welfare states in CEE countries form a separate, CEE welfare regime (Fenger, 2007;Põder and Kerem, 2011). At least, the variation between the groups of West and East European welfare states appears to be larger than the variation within those groups (Draxler and Van Vliet, 2010).…”

Section: European Welfare Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, we examine whether the political economy of labour market models and employment relations is comparable for West and East European countries. Labour market policies in Central and East European (CEE) countries seem to develop differently than labour market policies in West European countries (Beblavý, 2011;Cerami, 2010;Koster et al, 2011;Põder and Kerem, 2011). As the political economy literature on labour market policies is mainly focused on Western OECD countries, it is still an empirical question whether determinants from this literature can account for the variation in labour market policy reforms across Western and Eastern European countries.…”

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“…According to recent studies, there is no evidence that this gap has been closed and that West and East European welfare states have converged (Draxler and Van Vliet, 2010;Põder and Kerem, 2011). This lack of convergence indicates that Western and Eastern welfare states have followed different trajectories of reforms, which might (partly) be due to the key explanatory variables for the cross-country variation in welfare state reform, namely partisan politics and corporatism.…”

Section: European Welfare Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Political Economy of Labour Market Policies in Western and Eastern European Countries

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Goudswaard³

2012

SSRN Journal

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Discussions on how to organize European labour markets are one of the key public policy issues of today. In European policy debates, the most important concepts seem to be 'flexicurity' and the 'transitional labour market'. In this report we examine the cross-country variation in the generosity of unemployment benefits, which is a key element of the flexicurity model. Building on the political economy literature, we test hypotheses on the role of partisan politics, employment relations and employment protection legislation and active labour market policies in unemployment benefit reform. These factors have been extensively studied in the political economy literature, but hardly for Eastern European countries, because of a lack of data. We employ pooled time series

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“…The country has a flat personal income tax with a modest tax-free deductible, implying relatively little redistribution through the tax system. The social welfare system is among the least generous in Europe and is in many ways comparable to the systems often associated with Anglo-Saxon countries (Põder & Kerem, 2011). Moreover, the ability to implement counter-cyclical policies is severely limited by a policy of annually balanced budgets and by a strictly fixed exchange rate prior to 2011 when Estonia joined the euro area.…”

Section: The Estonian Economy and Labour Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Minimum wages and the wage distribution in Estonia

2018

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This paper studies how changes in the statutory minimum wage have affected the wage distribution in Estonia, a post-transition country with little collective bargaining and relatively large wage inequality. The analyses show that the minimum wage has had substantial spill-over effects on wages in the lower tail of the distribution; the effects are most pronounced up to the 20 th percentile and then decline markedly. The minimum wage has contributed to lower wage inequality and this has particularly benefitted lowwage segments of the labour market such as women and the elderly. Interestingly, the importance of the minimum wage for the wage distribution was smaller during the global financial crisis than before or after the crisis.

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"Social Models" in a European Comparison

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania

From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania

The Political Economy of Labour Market Policies in Western and Eastern European Countries

Minimum wages and the wage distribution in Estonia

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