Support to families with children in the Baltic States: pathways of expansion and retrenchment from 2004 to 2019

Jolanta Aidukaite

Chapter 16 in Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State, 2021, pp 221-242 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter aims to uncover changes in the family support systems (parental leave policies, child care arrangements and child benefits) of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as they have developed from 2004 up to the 2019. The Baltic case show that family support systems can be vulnerable to retrenchment during a crisis, but only short-lived benefits and programs suffer most. This is what precisely happened in Lithuania. The relatively short-lived history of universal child benefits (from 2004 to 2008) in Lithuania facilitated their retrenchment as soon as the austerity rhetoric began to dominate the political agenda. However, the universal benefits, once introduced in the early 1990s in Latvia and Estonia, have become impossible to reverse even if the crisis provided opportunities for change.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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