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Social Investment in an Age of Austerity: A Comparison of Family Policy Reforms in Four European Countries

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dc.contributor.authorBlum, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorCorreia, Sónia
dc.contributor.authorNygård, Mikael
dc.contributor.authorRakar, Tatjana
dc.contributor.authorWall, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T12:20:20Z
dc.date.available2021-01-21T12:20:20Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this article is on family policy reforms in four European countries – Austria, Finland, Portugal, and Slovenia – between 2008 and 2015. These years were marked by the ‘Great Recession’, and by the rise of the social-investment perspective. Social investment is an umbrella concept, though, and it is also somewhat ambiguous. This article distinguishes between different social-investment variants, which emerge from a focus on its interaction with alternative social-policy perspectives, namely social protection and austerity. We identify different variants along the degree of social-investment: from comprehensive, over crowding out, towards lean forms. While the empirical analysis highlights variation, it also shows how there is a specific crisis context, which may lead to ‘crowding out’ of other policy approaches and ‘leaner’ forms of social investment. This has led to strong cutbacks in family cash benefits, while public childcare and parental leaves have proved more resilient in the investigated countries. Those findings are revelatory in the current Covid-19 pandemic, where countries are entering a next, possibly larger economic crisis.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationBlum, S., Correia, S., Nygård, M., Rakar, T., Wall, K. (2020). Social investment in an age of austerity: A comparison of family policy reforms in four European countries [Socijalno ulaganje u doba štednje: Usporedba reformi obiteljske politike u četiri Europske zemlje]. Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku [Croatian journal of social policy], 27(3)pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3935/rsp.v27i3.1563pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1330-2965
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/45890
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherStudijski centar socijalnog rada [University of Zagreb. Faculty of Law]pt_PT
dc.relationFamily Studies at the University of Vienna (contract 14-3030-65)pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://hrcak.srce.hr/248764pt_PT
dc.subjectfamily policy;pt_PT
dc.subjectcrisispt_PT
dc.subjectsocial investmentpt_PT
dc.subjectausteritypt_PT
dc.subjectcase studiespt_PT
dc.titleSocial Investment in an Age of Austerity: A Comparison of Family Policy Reforms in Four European Countriespt_PT
dc.title.alternativeSocijalno ulaganje u doba štednje: Usporedba reformi obiteljske politike u četiri Europske zemljept_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage267pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue3pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage249pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleRevija za socijalnu politikupt_PT
oaire.citation.volume27pt_PT
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