The Swiss Welfare State: A Changing Public-Private Mix?

Bertozzi, Fabio; Gilardi, Fabrizio

doi:10.1057/9780230228771_10

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, among partnered respondents, those whose partners are unemployed or experience severe job insecurity do not differ significantly from those whose partners are not in the labor force, although the figures suggest a small negative effect for women. This implies that stable employment comes with status, privileges, and certain social benefits that make people satisfied with their life, while the absence of such employment is experienced as stressful (Bertozzi and Gilardi 2008).…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, a multilevel study including 24 European countries has shown that in Switzerland childlessness is more common and has a weak negative impact on psychological well-being (Huijts, Kraaykamp, and Subramanian 2013). Third, welfare state support for parents is limited, and work-family reconciliation policies are scarce (Bertozzi and Gilardi 2008), which lowers the benefits expected from parenthood. While the introduction of paid maternity leave in 2005 was a significant improvement in family policies, Switzerland's leave scheme remains minimal.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Job insecurity and parental well-being: The role of parenthood and family factors

Hanappi¹,

Lipps²

2019

DemRes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

BACKGROUND The consequences of job loss for subjective well-being are widely known. Yet, the subjective well-being of parents who fear that they might lose their jobs has received much less attention. OBJECTIVE We analyze how changes in job insecurity are associated with parental subjective wellbeing. We further provide insight into the impact of parenthood and varying childbearing demands, as well as potential accumulative dynamics. METHODS Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) (2000-2016; N = 7,167), we apply fixed-effects models to estimate deviations of well-being from the individual-specific mean. Our analytic sample comprises a total of 43,276 person years. RESULTS We replicate the overall well-being response surrounding the experiences of job insecurity and unemployment, and we provide evidence for variation in subjective wellbeing over the parental life-cycle. CONCLUSIONS The divergence in the well-being responses around raising a newborn or infant versus older children may affect fertility timing and the optimal number of children to have. The results also reveal gender-specific effects and hint at the new role of women in paid labor, but they indicate that the 'old' role of men as breadwinners has not changed dramatically.

show abstract

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Job insecurity and parental well-being: The role of parenthood and family factors

Hanappi¹,

Lipps²

2019

DemRes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Due to limited welfare state support for parents and work‐family reconciliation policies (Bertozzi & Gilardi, 2008 ), Switzerland is an interesting case to analyze the gendered impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on time spent on unpaid work. After relatively slow progress toward gender equality, recent positive developments might more easily be affected, or even reversed, by an external shock, such as the pandemic.…”

Section: Switzerland – An Interesting Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The gendered consequences of the COVID‐19 lockdown on unpaid work in Swiss dual earner couples with children

Steinmetz

Vandecasteele

Lebert

et al. 2022

Gender Work & Organization

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article assesses the gendered impact of COVID‐19 measures on changes in time that Swiss dual earner couples spent on unpaid work during the pandemic, focusing on families with children. Overcoming some of the methodological shortcomings of previous studies, high‐quality representative panel data allow us to examine the change in time invested in housework and childcare before and during the pandemic, and test theoretical assumptions as to the mechanisms underlying the observed patterns. Gender inequalities are explained by the couple's work division prior to, and at the onset of, the pandemic and interpreted in the light of key theoretical approaches (economics of the family, bargaining and time availability, doing gender). Our results imply that in particular changes in the time availability of the partner are relevant for changes in time spent on housework, while in case of care work, the own time availability matters more. Moreover, we also found that the respondents' economic bargaining power within the couple matters both for housework and care work. Finally, the implemented COVID‐19 measures neither led to an increase in patriarchal power structures nor did they foster an increase in equality for unpaid work among women and men. Instead, the results show that changes in time availability due to short‐time, remote or overtime working schemes determined changes in time spent on unpaid care to a larger extent than gender alone.

show abstract

“…The analyses are based on Swiss data. Switzerland is a country characterized by limited welfare state support for parents and scarce work–family reconciliation policies (Bertozzi and Gilardi 2008 ), making women’s part-time work the main strategy to combine work and family (Giraud and Lucas 2009 ; Widmer and Ritschard 2009 ). Therefore, the role of individual preferences, resources, and restrictions may be especially pronounced and gender differences are likely to occur.…”

Section: Background and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The analyses are based on eleven waves of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP, N = 1332 men and 1272 women, 1999–2008, 2010). Switzerland is an interesting context to study the link between well-being and the transition to parenthood, because welfare state support for parents is limited and work–family reconciliation policies are scarce (Bertozzi and Gilardi 2008 ). In such a context, the role of individual preferences, resources, and restrictions may be especially pronounced.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenthood and Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Leisure and Paid Work

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study contributes to our knowledge on the association between parenthood and psychological well-being by examining whether pre-parenthood lifestyles (leisure and paid work) moderate the transition to parenthood. We expected that people with less active lifestyles would find it easier to adapt to the demands of parenthood. Using eleven waves of the Swiss Household Panel (N = 1332 men and 1272 women; 1999–2008, 2010), fixed effects models are estimated for men and women separately. Results show that—on average—parenthood was not associated with well-being for men, whereas it increased well-being for women. As expected, the well-being premium/cost to parenthood was contingent upon individuals’ lifestyle before the transition to parenthood. For men, parenthood reduced well-being, but only if they frequently participated in leisure before the birth of the child. For women, motherhood had a beneficial effect on well-being but this effect was weaker for women who combined leisure with working long hours before motherhood.

show abstract

The Swiss Welfare State: A Changing Public-Private Mix?

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Job insecurity and parental well-being: The role of parenthood and family factors

Job insecurity and parental well-being: The role of parenthood and family factors

The gendered consequences of the COVID‐19 lockdown on unpaid work in Swiss dual earner couples with children

Parenthood and Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Leisure and Paid Work

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About