Between Ideology and Economy: The "Time Politics" of Child Care and Public Education in the Two Germanys

Hagemann, Karen

doi:10.1093/sp/jxj012

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“…Indeed, in the West German context, as women increase their weekly working time, children are more likely to attend institutional care (Coneus et al, 2007;Spiess et al, 2002). Indeed, in Germany, the Catholic Church has opposed the expansion of childcare services (Hagemann, 2006), giving preferential support to home-based childcare for children aged under three. Rather, it occurs in the context of existing cultural and ideological values.…”

Section: Theory: Evolving Visions Of the Family And The Politics Of Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Value coalitions and policy change: The impact of gendered patterns of work, religion and partisanship on childcare policy across German states

Andronescu

Carnes

2015

Journal of European Social Policy

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In recent years, family policies in advanced industrial economies have experienced dynamic change and growth. In contrast to well-established social policies such as pensions and unemployment, which have seen downscaling reforms across Europe, family polices have experienced a trajectory of expansion in the region. Among European countries, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom have been particularly hailed as 'path shifters', for 'devoting considerably greater resources to childcare than in the past' (Morgan, 2013: 73).

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Section: Theory: Evolving Visions Of the Family And The Politics Of Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Value coalitions and policy change: The impact of gendered patterns of work, religion and partisanship on childcare policy across German states

Andronescu

Carnes

2015

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…In the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany) this system was progressively supplemented with after-school programmes that took place in the school building (Schulhorte) but organised under different auspices (Mattes, 2011). In West Germany, instead, the traditional half-day structure of the school system remained in place until the early 2000s and relied on the presence of mothers at home (Hagemann, 2006). The lack of afternoon care, with its consequences for maternal employment and possible contribution to educational inequalities, gained great political prominence only in the early 2000s and culminated in the launch of a federal government flagship programme, "The Future of Education and Care" (Investitionsprogramm Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung or IZBB).…”

Section: Afternoon Carementioning

confidence: 99%

School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply

2018

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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. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractMost literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school, particularly in countries where the school day ends at lunchtime. In this paper we examine the case of Germany, a country that has moved from an exclusively half-day school system to one where formal afternoon care is increasingly available. We estimate the effect of afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We show that children's afternoon care increases mothers' employment rate and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results we conduct a series of sensitivity analysis and apply a newly proposed method to assess possible bias from omitted variables. Our findings highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry.

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“…Germany is also confronted with a unique situation: clear disparities remain between the "two Germanys" (Hagemann 2006) 6 . Childcare services developped in different socio-political contexts which explains the higher provision of public services today in the eastern part of Germany.…”

Section: Germany and Its Principle Of Subsidiaritymentioning

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Is Ursula von der Leyen really going too far?

Camus¹

2010

Care – Wer Sorgt Für Wen?

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AbstractsThis article proposes to address the multiple issues challenging the provision of care facilities for children and the elderly in Germany. Is a paradigm change really taking place? Focusing on the specifics of the welfare system and considering the German feminist movements which traditionally are suspicious of state interventions and against the diminishment of femocrats initiatives, it will be argued that the degenderization of care duties might not be changing as rapidly as expected. New lines of oppression might develop that engage feminists to rethink the care issue which has evolved from one of gender and class to one of ethnicity and nationality. Geht Ursula von der Leyen wirklich zu weit? Geschlechterordnungen im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Zwischen Konservativismus und ReformDer Beitrag rekonstruiert die bundesdeutschen politischen Debatten bezüglich der Kinder-und Seniorenbetreuung und -versorgung und fragt nach einem möglichen Paradigmenwechsel. Hierzu werden im besonderen wohlfahrtsstaatliche und feministische Diskurse rekonstruiert, die vor allem aus machttheoretischer Perspektive die Dimensionen 'Generation' und 'Klasse' in den Blick nehmen. Demgegenüber zeigen sich aber auch neue Linien der Unterdrückung, die sich entlang der Kategorien 'Ethnizität' und 'Nationalität' entwickeln.

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Between Ideology and Economy: The "Time Politics" of Child Care and Public Education in the Two Germanys

Cited by 35 publications

References 60 publications

Value coalitions and policy change: The impact of gendered patterns of work, religion and partisanship on childcare policy across German states

Value coalitions and policy change: The impact of gendered patterns of work, religion and partisanship on childcare policy across German states

School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply

Is Ursula von der Leyen really going too far?

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