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Zbyszewska, Ania

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“…Following Poland’s ‘shock therapy’, unemployment rose to 10.2% in 1998 and 19.1% in 2004, including 39.6% youth unemployment (Mrozowicki et al, 2016; Plomien, 2009). Although unemployment has been declining since the mid-2000s to EU’s lowest levels, the thrust of regulations towards labour market flexibility, including part-time, fixed-term and other ‘non-standard’ employment, ‘activated’ women, older and younger people, but in low-waged and insecure work (Mrozowicki et al, 2016; Plomien, 2009; Zbyszewska, 2016). Ukraine has not achieved comparable levels of activation, despite labour market policy reforms attempted since 2007, with insecurity and informality affecting 35–40% of the workforce (Adamczyk, 2016; Muzychenko, 2018).…”

Section: Europeanisation and Market-capitalism In Poland And Ukrainementioning

confidence: 99%

Welfare as flourishing social reproduction: Polish and Ukrainian migrant workers in a market-participation society

Plomien

Schwartz

2023

Global Social Policy

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The historical link between labour and welfare is increasingly considered in the transnational register, largely because labour mobilities demand a rethinking of nation-based social protection systems. Transnational labour mobilities also illuminate other dimensions of boundary-crossing, including formality–informality, citizenship–non-citizenship and production–reproduction. These additional considerations call for going beyond the problem of transnational welfare access. We argue that the prism of social reproduction enables such a rethinking of the labour–welfare relationship. In this article, we conceptualise an expanded notion of welfare as flourishing social reproduction, in contradistinction to the principle of welfare deriving primarily from paid work and labour market participation. We apply this theorisation of welfare to our qualitative case study of the experiences and interests of Polish and Ukrainian migrant workers in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom employed in care provision, food production and housing construction sectors. In the geopolitical setting of uneven and combined Europe, embodying high levels of differentiation together with advanced transnational social protection, we explore the role of differentiation of migrants in labour markets (along work, migration and citizenship axes) and the extent to which transnational mobility facilitates the improvement of social reproduction. While the low-waged labour of Polish and Ukrainian men and women working in care, food and housing furnishes their own and local workers’ social reproduction needs, we find that migrant workers’ welfare as flourishing social reproduction remains wanting, even for those with already privileged access to the current ‘gold-standard’ transnational social protection offered by the EUs freedoms of movement framework. Welfare remains centred on individualised paid work logic, leaving a vast range of needs unmet and work and workers excluded, bearing implications for prevalent transnational social protection efforts.

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Section: Europeanisation and Market-capitalism In Poland And Ukrainementioning

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Welfare as flourishing social reproduction: Polish and Ukrainian migrant workers in a market-participation society

Plomien

Schwartz

2023

Global Social Policy

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“…Time is recognised as a critical dimension for understanding inequalities between men and women. For instance, scholars have studied how national ‘working-time regimes’ affect not only the time worked, but also the time left for other activities (Fudge, 2011; Zbyszewska, 2016). ‘Working-time regimes’ refers to the regulation of paid work time (annual hours, daily work limits, vacation time, flexibility, higher hourly rates for non-standard work schedules) (Lewis, 2009; Zbyszewska, 2016).…”

Section: Gender Equity Institutional Incoherence and Institutional Ti...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, scholars have studied how national ‘working-time regimes’ affect not only the time worked, but also the time left for other activities (Fudge, 2011; Zbyszewska, 2016). ‘Working-time regimes’ refers to the regulation of paid work time (annual hours, daily work limits, vacation time, flexibility, higher hourly rates for non-standard work schedules) (Lewis, 2009; Zbyszewska, 2016). Combined with family policies such as childcare or paid parental leave, these factors influence workforce participation by making it more (or less) possible for parents to share the load and to reconcile the demands of work and family (Rubery et al, 1998; Williams, 2001).…”

Section: Gender Equity Institutional Incoherence and Institutional Ti...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia

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Ravn

Churchill

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Journal of Sociology

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This article explores why women miss out in the transition from the educational system to the labour market. Using nationally representative longitudinal data (2001–18) from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, we compare how long after graduation it takes men and women with tertiary qualifications (n = 2030) to achieve key labour market milestones: (1) getting a full-time job; (2) getting a permanent contract; (3) earning an average wage; (4) finding a job that matches their skill level. We find significant gender differences in reaching these milestones, confirming that time is a critical dimension for understanding gendered inequalities in the returns to education. We attribute findings to incompatible ‘timescapes’ across the institutions of education, family and employment. The more flexible timescape of education allows women to succeed, but the inflexible timescape of employment (particularly when combined with family responsibilities) impedes them from turning educational achievement into labour market progress.

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