Economic crisis, families, and family policy in the Baltic states, 2009–2014

Continuity or Change? Leaders’ Values in the Baltic Countries over Time

“…Only three of four higher-order values (conservation, selftranscendence and self-enhancement) changed significantly over the years when analysing leaders from the different Baltic countries. These changes were very slight and related to differences between the particular years but not to the whole period of time used in the analysis (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016). Therefore, it is really hard to present the clear, unambiguous tendencies of leaders' values changes among the Baltic countries over time.…”

The evolution of social policy research in Central and Eastern Europe

“…Among the most debated outcomes of the post-communist transformation were and still are declining fertility rates, which, over a period of more than 25 years, never recovered to the pre-transformation period (see Eurostat, 2020). Therefore, demographic pressures such as the ageing of the population, low fertility rates, and emigration have stimulated the scientific debate throughout the CEE region (Ainsaar & Stankuniene, 2010;Oláh, 2015;Ainsaar & Rootalu, 2016;Frejka & Gietel-Basten, 2016;Ainsaar, 2019).…”

“…The demographic pressure imposed by declining fertility rates, ageing of the population, and the population decline caused by emigration was particularly strong in the Baltics (see Ainsaar & Stankuniene, 2010;Ainsaar & Rootalu, 2016;Ainsaar, 2019). This stimulated social policy research in this area, with numerous studies documenting the reconfigurations of family policy systems (see, e.g., Aidukaite, 2006Aidukaite, , 2019Ainsaar, 2019). These countries were also hit dramatically by the global financial and economic crisis of 2008, which impacted family policies, especially in Lithuania (Aidukaite, 2019;Ainsaar, 2019).…”

Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?

“…In most countries benefits are calculated on the basis of gross earnings. Tables PF2.1A and PF2 employment (Ainsaar, 2019). We classify Spain as a traditional family support model (although it does not have generous cash benefits for families), based on the scarcity of public services for young children, and the limited amount of provisions for reconciling family and employment (Flaquer, 2000).…”