Public Funding, Private Delivery: States, Markets, and Early Childhood Education and Care in Liberal Welfare States – A Comparison of Australia, the UK, Quebec, and New Zealand

White, Linda A.; Friendly, Martha

doi:10.1080/13876988.2012.699789

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“…Even though public expenditure for childcare is in line with other OECD countries, such as Southern Europe or English speaking countries (OECD 2017), most of the Australian public investment for childcare goes for cash-benefits and tax rebates for families with children under the age of 3. This incentivizes parents to depend on unpaid support, provided by relatives and friends, or private childcare services, whose cost is only partially subsidized by government income-based allowances, i.e., childcare benefit (Kilkey 2000;Brennan 2007;White and Friendly 2012).…”

Section: The Australian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childcare arrangements and working mothers’ satisfaction with work‒family balance

Luppi¹,

Arpino²

2020

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDDifficulties with work-family reconciliation contribute to explaining the low participation of women in the labour market and low fertility levels in several developed countries. Understanding how much different types of childcare can help mothers to balance family and work is crucial for implementing ad hoc policies. OBJECTIVEThis study examines whether working mothers' satisfaction with work-family balance is associated with different combinations of paid and unpaid childcare arrangements. Difficulties in using different types of childcare are also considered. METHODSWe use random effects models on panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013). RESULTSResults show that a balanced mix of paid and unpaid childcare is associated with mothers' highest satisfaction. Difficulties related to the affordability and the flexibility of paid childcare negatively relate to the satisfaction with work-family balance. Moreover, even after adjusting for experienced difficulties, the "mixed" arrangement guarantees the most satisfying combination of work and family responsibilities.

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Section: The Australian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childcare arrangements and working mothers’ satisfaction with work‒family balance

Luppi¹,

Arpino²

2020

DemRes

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“…The three-pillared institutional setting of ECEC proposed by several authors to capture the complexity of the ECEC system at the institutions level is also adopted as the conceptual framework of this article. This model acknowledges the role of the government in the provision, regulation and financing of the ECEC system (McLean 2014;Meyers and Gornick 2003;White and Friendly 2012). Given the tradition of focusing on the public investment in any public service sector, including ECEC, it is important to widen the focus also to how and by whom the services are provided (White and Friendly 2012).…”

Section: Perceptions Of the Accessibility Of Ececmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This model acknowledges the role of the government in the provision, regulation and financing of the ECEC system (McLean 2014;Meyers and Gornick 2003;White and Friendly 2012). Given the tradition of focusing on the public investment in any public service sector, including ECEC, it is important to widen the focus also to how and by whom the services are provided (White and Friendly 2012). In our previous research, we have adopted this model, established quantifiable determinants for each mode of intervention and measured the effects of these determinants on the take-up of ECEC services across Europe (Authors, unpublished article).…”

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Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study

Ünver

Bircan

Nicaise

2018

ICEP

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Background Ensuring the access of every child to an inclusive and good-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is an important priority for governments as ECEC has a more profound and lasting effect on children's learning potential than any other intervention in their later lives at any other age, especially for disadvantaged children (Bowers et al. 2012; Cunha et al. 2006; Heckman 2006; Leseman 2009). An extensive body of literature recognises the social and economic benefits of ECEC for improved child well-being and learning outcomes, prevention of educational disadvantage, enhanced female employment, reduced (child) poverty, increased intergenerational social mobility and favourable outcomes later in life (Cunha et al. 2006; Leseman 2009; OECD 2012). Although the initial focus on ECEC was to free up mothers' time so that they can take part in the labour market (Mahon 2002), in line with scientific evidence on the positive outcomes of ECEC for the children themselves, the European discourse started to focus more on high-quality, holistic, complex, integrated, inter-sectoral and inclusive provision (Herczog 2012). However, whether these services are effectively accessible is often overlooked by researchers and policy makers (Vandenbroeck and Lazzari 2014), even more so for disadvantaged children from low-income families (

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“…There is a particular neoliberal imaginary of the childcare market which has gained currency in the policy communities of the countries outlined, and which has ultimately influenced debates over the last decade (Lloyd and Penn, 2013;White and Friendly, 2012). This representation of the childcare market is a significant departure from the notion of childcare as a public good (Daly, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

The business of care

Gallagher

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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The aim of this article is to outline a geographical research agenda for studying the marketization of childcare in Western neoliberal contexts. While childcare has been a key site of interrogation for feminist geographers, highlighting the profound inequities of marketized care for many who work in and use childcare, the contours of the childcare market as a situated and constructed economic entity has remained under-examined. I suggest that at a time when more families than ever rely on extra-familial childcare, an appreciation of how childcare markets function is urgently needed.

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Public Funding, Private Delivery: States, Markets, and Early Childhood Education and Care in Liberal Welfare States – A Comparison of Australia, the UK, Quebec, and New Zealand

Cited by 33 publications

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Childcare arrangements and working mothers’ satisfaction with work‒family balance

Childcare arrangements and working mothers’ satisfaction with work‒family balance

Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study

The business of care

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