The Relationships Between Local and National Childcare Policies – A Comparison of Nordic and Southern European Cities

Kuronen, Marjo; Kröger, Teppo; Antón-Alonso, Fernando; Cucca, Roberta; Escobedo, Anna; Jensen, Per H.; Sabatinelli, Stefania

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“…This was accompanied by a remarkable increase in federal funding for preschool and primary education from an average spending of EUR 1,769 per child in 1990 to EUR 2,405 in 1996 (Nollenberger & Rodríguez-Planas 2015). In 2008, the PSOE initiated the EDUCA3 programme to expand public early education spending further by providing additional (50 per cent) funding from central government to fund new early education facilities (Kuronen et al 2015). Hence, the prioritisation of early education served to liberate women from socially imposed domestic responsibilities for care, which obviously contributed to rising FLFP.…”

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Piecing Together the ‘Turkish Puzzle’ on Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Insights from Southern Europe

Bölükbaşi¹,

Kutlu²

2019

South European Society and Politics

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Southern Europe has seen remarkable turnarounds in female labour force participation (FLFP) over the past four decades. In Turkey, however, scores of women have yet to join the labour force. To address this 'Turkish puzzle', we present comparative data on women's work in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece (SE-4) and Turkey. Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we identify the factors behind rising FLFP in Southern Europe to explore the prospects for a steeper rise of FLFP in Turkey. We reveal two causal pathways to rising FLFP: (i) left party rule, or (ii) combinations of higher levels of take-up of early education and care, higher levels of tertiary education among women and larger size of service sector employment.

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Piecing Together the ‘Turkish Puzzle’ on Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Insights from Southern Europe

Bölükbaşi¹,

Kutlu²

2019

South European Society and Politics

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“…Although cross‐country variation has been widely researched, this pronounced subnational variation in the service provision for children 0–2 is little studied. Thanks to an increasing interest for the local level of social policy, for the implications of rescaling processes and of multilevel governance (Kazepov, ), comparative studies have addressed local childcare systems, although mostly based on a limited number of local case studies (e.g., Fraisse, Andreotti, & Sabatinelli, ; Fraisse & Escobedo, ; Kuronen et al, ). Studies on single countries marked by significant subnational variations examined the factors associated with differential ECEC development pointing to needs, economic development, politics, polity, and historical legacies.…”

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Explaining subnational variations in early childhood education and care. A fuzzy‐set analysis of the Italian case

2019

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Although cross‐country differences in the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services have been widely researched, the pronounced subnational variation that characterizes many countries is little researched. This article aims to contribute filling this gap by investigating the factors underlying ECEC development in Italian regions, where take‐up rates of public and subsidized daycare centers, behind a national average of 12%, range from 2% in some Southern regions to 25% in Emilia Romagna (North‐East). The article explores the configurations of economic, socio‐demographic, political, institutional, and cultural factors possibly responsible for high and low ECEC development through Fuzzy‐set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Results show that economic development and female employment are necessary but not sufficient conditions for ECEC development; similarly, familistic values, the lack of early ECEC development and of social capital are necessary but not sufficient conditions for limited expansion. The analysis identifies multifaceted patterns of (non)expansion, thus demonstrating the complexity of social policy development processes and preventing determinism based on need, cultural, or economic factors.

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“…Local child day care services play a central role in enabling or disabling female labour market participation. A study by Kuronen et al (2014) showed how recent trends in the city of Jyväskylä have gone towards subsidising non-public forms of childcare, such as the use of private child day care services, with the aim of reducing the city's spending on childcare. Familistic tendencies have previously been more distinctive at the local level than in national policy-making (Kuronen et al, 2014) and the rhetoric of choice (Varjonen, 2011) has dominated the making of local childcare policy.…”

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“…A study by Kuronen et al (2014) showed how recent trends in the city of Jyväskylä have gone towards subsidising non-public forms of childcare, such as the use of private child day care services, with the aim of reducing the city's spending on childcare. Familistic tendencies have previously been more distinctive at the local level than in national policy-making (Kuronen et al, 2014) and the rhetoric of choice (Varjonen, 2011) has dominated the making of local childcare policy. In local policy documents changes were first and foremost justified with financial considerations (see Kari-Björkbacka, 2015) and the possible gendered implications of these changes remained hidden (see Autto, 2016).…”

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Local childcare policy and the changing gender contract

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2018

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Design/Methodology/Approach: Case study was applied as a research strategy. Local and national level statistics were used to explore the use of childcare services. Documents regarding the decision-making and administration of childcare in the city were analysed to distinguish the local policy changes during the time period. These documents include city budgets and records from the two municipal boards that have held the administrative responsibility of local childcare policy. The analysis of the data was conducted by using document analysis and feminist content analysis as a methodological framework. Findings:The results show that the overall development in local childcare policy has been towards cutbacks in childcare services and benefits, and towards the marketisation of childcare services. The city has also implemented new, locally specific childcare policies, which constitute a hybrid form of marketisation and neofamilism. Together these developments are creating a new local gender contract, which goes beyond the past previous traditional or modern models. This new local gender contract for women is defined as that of 'entrepreneurial homemaker'. Originality/Value: This paper contributes to the research on local social policy by identifying the role of local childcare policy in reshaping the gender contract in a Nordic context. This paper advances the theorisation of the concept of gender contract by introducing the 'entrepreneurial homemaker' model of gender contract.

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The Relationships Between Local and National Childcare Policies – A Comparison of Nordic and Southern European Cities

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Piecing Together the ‘Turkish Puzzle’ on Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Insights from Southern Europe

Piecing Together the ‘Turkish Puzzle’ on Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Insights from Southern Europe

Explaining subnational variations in early childhood education and care. A fuzzy‐set analysis of the Italian case

Local childcare policy and the changing gender contract

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