Social investment in care policies

Chiara Saraceno

Chapter 18 in Research Handbook on Social Care Policy, 2025, pp 279-292 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: SI) provides a strong narrative in favour of ECEC, based on a dual concern: investing in children as human capital in development and valorizing women's human capital by supporting their labour market participation without hampering fertility. This narrative, and the world view that inspires it, is characterized by a significant degree of gender awareness concerning the inequalities between men and women and the value of women's contribution to a society's well-being. This awareness, however, stops short of envisaging a substantial change in fathers’ involvement in childcare and is accompanied by an under-evaluation of care as a meaningful activity and relationship for both mothers and fathers. The social investment arguments are less clearly developed in the case of long term care for persons with disabilities and frail older people and the possible targets of social investment not clearly identified.

Keywords: Social investment; Gender perspective; Early childcare and education; Long-term care; Human capital; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781839103681
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