Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate

Francesca Bettio and Janneke Plantenga

Chapter 6 in Institutions for Social Well-Being, 2008, pp 152-175 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The expressions ‘care work’, ‘care services’ and ‘care regimes’ have recently entered the vocabulary of the socioeconomic literature located at the intersection of analysis of the welfare state, studies on social policy, and feminist research (Lewis, 2001; Anttonnen et al., 2003; Folbre, 2008). In a broad sense, ‘care’ is the activity of looking after people unable to take care of themselves. It comprises health care, teaching and special needs education, and the residual category of social care, or simply ‘care’, delivered mainly to minors, the elderly and the disabled. Although the boundaries among these categories are not clear-cut, because they depend on the inter-relation between the welfare state, the family and the market in a country, the subject matter of the research presented here is mainly social care.

Keywords: Minimum Wage; Welfare State; Informal Care; Nordic Country; Parental Leave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584358_7

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