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Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate

In: Institutions for Social Well-Being

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  • Francesca Bettio
  • Janneke Plantenga

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The expressions ‘care work’, ‘care services’ and ‘care regimes’ have recently entered the vocabulary of the socioeconomic literature located at the intersection of analysis of the welfare state, studies on social policy, and feminist research (Lewis, 2001; Anttonnen et al., 2003; Folbre, 2008). In a broad sense, ‘care’ is the activity of looking after people unable to take care of themselves. It comprises health care, teaching and special needs education, and the residual category of social care, or simply ‘care’, delivered mainly to minors, the elderly and the disabled. Although the boundaries among these categories are not clear-cut, because they depend on the inter-relation between the welfare state, the family and the market in a country, the subject matter of the research presented here is mainly social care.

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  • Francesca Bettio & Janneke Plantenga, 2008. "Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Lilia Costabile (ed.), Institutions for Social Well-Being, chapter 6, pages 152-175, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58435-8_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230584358_7
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    Cited by:

    1. Rainer Eppel & Thomas Leoni, 2011. "New Social Risks Affecting Children. A Survey of Risk Determinants and Child Outcomes in the EU," WIFO Working Papers 386, WIFO.
    2. Almudena Moreno Mínguez, 2012. "Gender, family and care provision in developing countries:Towards gender equality," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 12(4), pages 275-300, October.

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