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W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki oszacowania dwupoziomowego modelu regresji logitowej dla oceny takich predyktorow pracy zawodowej matek dzieci do lat 14 w Polsce jak: sytuacja rodzinna, rodzinne wzorce oraz postawy matek wobec... more
W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki oszacowania dwupoziomowego modelu regresji logitowej dla oceny takich predyktorow pracy zawodowej matek dzieci do lat 14 w Polsce jak: sytuacja rodzinna, rodzinne wzorce oraz postawy matek wobec kulturowych rol p³ci. Do analiz wykorzystano dane pochodz¹ce z pierwszej rundy ankietowego badania Generacje, Rodziny i P³eae Kulturowa GGS-PL. Stwierdzono, ?e wzorzec pracuj¹cej matki istotnie zwieksza³ szanse zatrudnienia jej corki posiadaj¹cej w³asne potomstwo, natomiast egalitarne opinie na temat kulturowych rol p³ci nie okaza³y sie byae istotnym predyktorem zatrudnienia matek. Jednak im silniejsza by³a aprobata matki dla stwierdzenia, ?e ma³e dziecko cierpi, gdy jego matka pracuje, tym mniejsze by³o prawdopodobienstwo posiadania przez ni¹ zatrudnienia. Wieksza liczba dzieci okaza³a sie byae stymulantem zatrudnienia po uwzglednieniu w modelu kwestii podzia³u obowi¹zkow pomiedzy partnerow oraz zakresu korzystania przez matke z pomocy krewnych/znajomych w opiece nad dzieckiemAbstract:The paper presents estimation results of a two-level logistic regression model developed in order to explore such predictors of employment of mothers with children up to 14 years old in Poland as family situation and maternal attitudes versus cultural gender roles. The analysis was based on the data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey GGS-PL. It was found that the family pattern of a working mother significantly increased the chances of employment of her daughter having her own offspring(s). Egalitarian attitudes towards cultural gender roles have not proved to be a significant predictor of maternal employment. However, the stronger was mother's approval of the statement that “a small child suffers when his/her mother works”, the lower was the likelihood of her employment. A larger number of children turned out to be a stimulus for maternal employment when the division of responsibilities between partners and the extent of informal childcare use were incorporated into the modelLength: 31 pages
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Abstract This paper examines the role of a country’s care regime as a potential moderator of the link between the share of female employees and the provision of family-friendly practices in companies. Based on theoretical sampling, we... more
Abstract This paper examines the role of a country’s care regime as a potential moderator of the link between the share of female employees and the provision of family-friendly practices in companies. Based on theoretical sampling, we compare the provision of flextime and day care services in companies in three country contexts (Sweden, Poland, and Germany) with varying degrees of de-familialization and support of maternal employment to exemplify our model. Our empirical analysis is based on 732 observations from 152 public companies listed on the Swedish OMX, the Polish WIG20 and the German DAX/MDAX, during the period 2005–2015. Random effects logistic regressions reveal that there is no automatism concerning a demand-driven push towards employer-provided family-friendly practices. Rather, the care regime seems to play an important role for whether the provision of family-friendly practices in companies is affected by the share of female employees and which family-friendly practices are affected.
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Polska konstytucja zapewnia kobietom takie same prawa w zakresie prowadzenia własnej działalności gospodarczej jak mężczyznom. Jednak zjawiska o charakterze gospodarczym zachodzą w określonym kontekście społecznym i kulturowym, w którym... more
Polska konstytucja zapewnia kobietom takie same prawa w zakresie prowadzenia własnej działalności gospodarczej jak mężczyznom. Jednak zjawiska o charakterze gospodarczym zachodzą w określonym kontekście społecznym i kulturowym, w którym funkcjonują kulturowe wzorce ról przypisanych płciom i różne oczekiwania społeczne wobec matek i ojców małych dzieci. W Polsce nadal dominują tradycyjne wzorce, według których to matka jest przede wszystkim odpowiedzialna za opiekę nad małym dzieckiem. W rezultacie więc podjęcie i prowadzenie działalności gospodarczej przez matki wiąże się z wyższymi kosztami niż w przypadku ojców. Do kosztów tych zaliczyć można m.in. koszty psychologiczne (związane z przeciwstawieniem się oczekiwaniom społecznym oraz z łączeniem ról/obowiązków zawodowych i rodzinnych), a także koszty związane z zapewnieniem zewnętrznej opieki nad małym dzieckiem oraz ubezpieczeniem chorobowym w celu uzyskania możliwości skorzystania z płatnego urlopu macierzyńskiego (koszty ekonomic...
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Artykuł prezentuje wyniki analizy zmian w dostępie do opieki nad dzieckiem w wieku poniżej trzech lat3 przed wejściem w życie ustawy o opiece nad dzieckiem do lat 3 w Polsce z 2011 r. i po jej wdrożeniu. Autorka stara się odpowiedzieć na... more
Artykuł prezentuje wyniki analizy zmian w dostępie do opieki nad dzieckiem w wieku poniżej trzech lat3 przed wejściem w życie ustawy o opiece nad dzieckiem do lat 3 w Polsce z 2011 r. i po jej wdrożeniu. Autorka stara się odpowiedzieć na następujące pytania: czy dostęp do tej opieki wzrósł istotnie po wejściu w życie wymienionej ustawy; czy mamy do czynienia z konwergencją gmin według ich typów (miasta na prawach powiatu, gminy miejskie, wiejskie i miejsko-wiejskie) w zakresie dostępności opieki żłobkowej czy raczej ich dywergencją; jak mają się te zmiany do procesów, które zachodziły we
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The Covid-19 pandemic and related massive spread of home based work led to substantial changes in the conditions for combining work and childbearing. On the one hand, working from home helped parents to accommodate increased childcare... more
The Covid-19 pandemic and related massive spread of home based work led to substantial changes in the conditions for combining work and childbearing. On the one hand, working from home helped parents to accommodate increased childcare needs during the pandemic. On the other hand, it led to acute experiences of blurred boundaries between work and family life during childcare and school closures. Therefore, the direction of the impact of working from home on fertility intentions during the pandemic is not unequivocal. In this paper, we investigate how working from home was related to change in fertility intentions of mothers and fathers during the pandemic and discuss the complex mechanisms behind these relationships. With the use of unique Familydemic Survey data from a representative sample of parents in Poland, we estimate multinomial logit regressions by gender and consider a set of potential moderators, including financial well-being, gender relations, and occupational characteri...
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Here we present the Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset (FCCGD), which offers cross country and gender comparative data on work and family outcomes among parents of dependent children, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It... more
Here we present the Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset (FCCGD), which offers cross country and gender comparative data on work and family outcomes among parents of dependent children, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers six countries from two continents representing diverse welfare regimes as well as distinct policy reactions to the pandemic outbreak. The FCCGD was created using the first wave of a web-based international survey (Familydemic) carried out between June and September 2021, on large samples of parents (aged 20–59) living with at least one child under 12 in Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the US. While individual datasets are not available due to country-level restriction policies, the presented database allows for cross-country comparison of a wide range of employment outcomes and work arrangements, the division of diverse tasks of unpaid labour (housework and childcare) in couples, experiences with childcare and school closures due ...
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Here we present the Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset (FCCGD), which offers cross country and gender comparative data on work and family outcomes among parents of dependent children, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It... more
Here we present the Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset (FCCGD), which offers cross country and gender comparative data on work and family outcomes among parents of dependent children, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers six countries from two continents representing diverse welfare regimes as well as distinct policy reactions to the pandemic outbreak. The FCCGD was created using the first wave of a web-based international survey (Familydemic) carried out between June and September 2021, on large samples of parents (aged 20–59) living with at least one child under 12 in Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the US. While individual datasets are not available due to country-level restriction policies, the presented database allows for cross-country comparison of a wide range of employment outcomes and work arrangements, the division of diverse tasks of unpaid labour (housework and childcare) in couples, experiences with childcare and school closures due ...
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In spite of increasing levels of female employment, having a child below school age often goes along with a substantial decrease in employment engagement for women. Consequently, previous family policy research suggests that increasing... more
In spite of increasing levels of female employment, having a child below school age often goes along with a substantial decrease in employment engagement for women. Consequently, previous family policy research suggests that increasing childcare availability might be a promising tool to facilitate maternal employment as it increases the economic incentive to take up work. Another line of reasoning highlights that cultural attitudes towards maternal employment are equally important in shaping the employment decisions of mothers. In this article, we combine insights of both approaches and argue that culture, in addition to its direct effect on maternal employment, moderates the impact of childcare policies. In particular, we argue that the positive effect of childcare may be weaker in more conservative cultural contexts. To assess this question empirically, we exploit the implementation of a centralised childcare reform in Poland as a natural experiment by means of a regression discon...
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The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, through the lens of the Multiple Streams Approach, it explains the successful introduction of the major Parental Leave reform undertaken in Poland in 2013 in terms of three streams - policies,... more
The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, through the lens of the Multiple Streams Approach, it explains the successful introduction of the major Parental Leave reform undertaken in Poland in 2013 in terms of three streams - policies, problems and politics – and how they can combine together. Second, it assesses the solutions introduced by the reform with regards to one of the major aims of this reform, i.e. encouraging fathers to more thoroughly engage in childcare. By applying the Capability Approach, the chapter shows that the design of the reform did not take into account the economic and cultural conversion factors that create barriers for fathers to use this leave. As a result of those barriers, over 99% of users of the Parental Leave are mothers. The chapter concludes by arguing that in order to create real opportunities for fathers to go on leave a highly paid ‘daddy quota’ should have been introduced.
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The article analyses public parental leave in eight northern European countries, and assesses its opportunity potential to facilitate equal parental involvement and employment, focusing on gender and income opportunity gaps. It draws on... more
The article analyses public parental leave in eight northern European countries, and assesses its opportunity potential to facilitate equal parental involvement and employment, focusing on gender and income opportunity gaps. It draws on Sen's capability approach and Weber's ideal-types to comparative policy analysis, and offers the ideal parental leave architecture, one which minimizes the policy-generated gender and class inequality in parents' opportunities to share parenting and keep their jobs, thus providing real opportunities for different groups of individuals to achieve valued functionings when they are parents. Five new policy indicators are created to assess leave against the ideal architecture, employing benchmarking and graphical analyses to analyse countries' public policies from 2015. The method considers two sources of opportunity inequality: the leave system (as the opportunity and constraint structure) and the socioeconomic and cultural contexts (as the conversion factors). It produces a nuanced and comprehensive overview of national leave policies, visually representing policy across countries. It challenges a policy-cluster idea and demonstrates that public leave policies in northern Europe are far from homogenous; they diverge not only in the degree to which they create real opportunities for parents across gender and income groups but also in the policy dimensions through which these opportunities are created. These findings suggest that family policies do not fit neatly the established welfare state types or the Nordic-Baltic divide, and that considering policy capability ramifications beyond gender warrants further research.
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In the paper we show that the lower employment levels of women comparing to men is characteristic of families with small children. We discuss the determinants of withdrawal of young mothers from employment. Finally we propose a reform to... more
In the paper we show that the lower employment levels of women comparing to men is characteristic of families with small children. We discuss the determinants of withdrawal of young mothers from employment. Finally we propose a reform to the system of family benefits in order to introduce mechanisms that make work more financially attractive for mothers in Poland.
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Political narratives formulated by the conservative Law and Justice party, which came into power in 2015, put into question most of the democratic achievements in Poland since 1989. This opened up a widespread political legitimation... more
Political narratives formulated by the conservative Law and Justice party, which came into power in 2015, put into question most of the democratic achievements in Poland since 1989. This opened up a widespread political legitimation crisis. We explore this crisis at the individual level. An ‘unfinished transformation’ hypothesis assumes that the weakness of civil society and low civic skills in Poland may have resulted in the withdrawal of support for the political system. According to the second hypothesis, the ‘neoliberal economy’ in which neoliberalism may be perceived as a proactive anti-crisis measure as well as lack of social security contributed to the significant share of Polish society denying legitimation to political system. We find that both streams of argument have its merits.
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Celem artykułu jest dokonanie oceny potencjalnego wpływu projektowanej przez rząd reformy urlopów macierzyńskich na sytuację kobiet na rynku pracy, podział obowiązków rodzicielskich między rodzicami oraz dzietność. W artykule autorka... more
Celem artykułu jest dokonanie oceny potencjalnego wpływu projektowanej przez rząd reformy urlopów macierzyńskich na sytuację kobiet na rynku pracy, podział obowiązków rodzicielskich między rodzicami oraz dzietność. W artykule autorka odwołuje się do wyników badań empirycznych prowadzonych w krajach europejskich oraz formułuje propozycje modyfikacji reform w kierunku umożliwiającym osiągnięcie oczekiwanych przez rząd rezultatów.
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This article presents a conceptual model of determinants of fertility and labour supply of men and women, integrating the various concepts presented in a rich literature on the subject. We interconnected a role of... more
This article presents a conceptual model of determinants of fertility and labour supply of men and women, integrating the various concepts presented in a rich literature on the subject. We interconnected a role of personal preferences and predispositions of men and women, their past experience, economic, cultural and structural conditions as well as biological conditions of fertility. We underlined issues requiring further research.
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Compared to other EU countries, Poland has one of the lowest employment rates of women with children aged 0–5 years, in particular, mothers with low and medium level of education. As shown by the results of research and... more
Compared to other EU countries, Poland has one of the lowest employment rates of women with children aged 0–5 years, in particular, mothers with low and medium level of education. As shown by the results of research and experience of other countries, the conditions that favor the growth of professional activity and employment of this group of women, and which in Poland are not met, are the following: 1) popularity of flexible forms, notably “good quality” part-time work and opportunities for flexible working arrangements, 2) access to relatively cheap care services for children, 3) not too long maternity and paternal leave and 4) individual taxation. In the conclusion, the author considers the strengths and weaknesses of selected solutions that can help to overcome barriers to economic activity of young mothers in Poland.
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The impact of family policy and labour market policy instruments on fertility and labour market participation of men and women - the state of art.
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This concluding chapter synthesizes the key messages from the book and presents a framework for future uses of the capability approach (CA) in social policy research and practice. As shown throughout the volume, social policy as a... more
This concluding chapter synthesizes the key messages from the book and presents a framework for future uses of the capability approach (CA) in social policy research and practice. As shown throughout the volume, social policy as a multi-layered research field spans numerous domains, each with their inherent complexities and approaches. Taking policy domains as an evaluative entry point, social policy research seeks to understand their development, processes, aims, implementation and impact from multiple perspectives and actors, including policymakers, professionals and practitioners, and policy recipients. The CA offers a promising way forward in understanding these multiple perspectives as demonstrated by the individual chapters in this volume. We break systematically from the established scholarship in our aim to offer new frameworks for analysing and formulating policies. We propose the use of a capability approach to social policy (see Chapter One), further specified into capability theories (Robeyns, 2017), as illustrated by the conceptual and methodological developments in this volume, synthesized here. Additionally, we discuss a three-tiered translational process for shifting from developing an evaluative space for understanding social policy development, its implementation and effects, towards developing capability-based social policies at a collective level. This final, concluding chapter, briefly summarizes the key arguments of the book to provide a foundation for making this shift.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to solve the puzzle of the disproportionately lower employment rate of mothers of toddlers with relation to the employment rate of mothers of preschool and school-age children in... more
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to solve the puzzle of the disproportionately lower employment rate of mothers of toddlers with relation to the employment rate of mothers of preschool and school-age children in Estonia.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on the Most Similar System Design and compares Estonia with Lithuania. The applied methods include inferential statistics and microsimulation techniques, employing the OECD Benefits and Wages Calculator, the OECD Family Support Calculator and EUROMOD – the European tax-benefit microsimulation model.FindingsThe comparison revealed that the overwhelming majority of the crucial aspects of socio-cultural, economic and institutional conditions were more favourable for maternal employment in Estonia than in Lithuania. This explains the higher maternal employment rates both for mothers of pre-schoolers and school-age children in Estonia. However, one particular element of the institutional context targeted to the mothers o...
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This article critically engages with Saxonberg's proposal (2013) to replace the (de)familialization perspective with the (de)genderization approach in comparative family policy/regime studies. It argues: (1) there is a need to refine... more
This article critically engages with Saxonberg's proposal (2013) to replace the (de)familialization perspective with the (de)genderization approach in comparative family policy/regime studies. It argues: (1) there is a need to refine the term ‘(de)familialization’ and to bring in the child's and elderly's perspective; (2) the ‘(de)familialization’ and ‘(de)genderization’ perspectives are mutually irreplaceable; and (3) there is a need to conceptualize the theoretical relationship between these two perspectives. The article further proposes to use the theoretical framework of Amartya Sen's Capability Approach (CA) to reinterpret both analytical perspectives with a dual advantage using that approach would lend. It first conceptualizes the de-familializing and de-genderizing policies as ‘means’ designed to increase peoples' ‘capabilities’ to achieve ‘valued functionings’ and not ultimate goals of policies that aim to change people's ‘functionings’. Thus, it addresses the criticism of de-familialization and de-genderization as policy strategies that enforce certain, potentially controversial ideals of societal and familial relations. Second, by using crucial CA concepts, i.e. ‘means’, ‘capabilities’ and ‘functionings’, it refines the interpretation of policy-, regime- and outcome-oriented analyses (typologies). As a result, it clarifies the distinction between these types of analyses and highlights the advantages of both a policy approach and a redefined regime approach.
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In this chapter, we discuss the key challenges and issues related to interpreting basic concepts of the capability approach (CA) in a social policy context. We start by briefly introducing the CA, tracing the idea of capabilities back to... more
In this chapter, we discuss the key challenges and issues related to interpreting basic concepts of the capability approach (CA) in a social policy context. We start by briefly introducing the CA, tracing the idea of capabilities back to the writings of Aristotle and interpreting them in the context of Sen's capability approach. We then discuss the theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the CA as it was further developed by Nussbaum and later interpreted by other scholars such as Robeyns. The focus here is on the main conceptual and empirical debates in relation to social policy research and practice, centred on the key concepts in Sen's approach to capabilities: means, capabilities, functionings, conversion factors, and agency. Multiple interpretations of these concepts create difficulties in applying the CA to social policy research. This chapter offers a way forward in addressing these issues as they apply specifically to social policy research and practice.
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The article explores the extent to which Europeans’ welfare attitudes explain (trans)national solidarity behavior. We set our analyses against the backdrop of the broader debate of welfare state consequences: Does a strong welfare state... more
The article explores the extent to which Europeans’ welfare attitudes explain (trans)national solidarity behavior. We set our analyses against the backdrop of the broader debate of welfare state consequences: Does a strong welfare state that is considered to take care of those in need diminish or strengthen citizens’ motivations to become engaged in helping others? We distinguish individuals’ solidarity behavior toward others within the welfare state, that is, citizens within one’s country, and outside the welfare state community of the respondents’ particular country. We further distinguish different others outside the welfare state, that is, between refugees, taking the refugee crisis in the European Union (EU) as a prime example, and citizens living in other countries—in EU countries and non-EU countries. As far as the main explanatory variables are concerned, we derive from the concept of “multidimensional welfare attitudes” and focus on five crucial dimensions of these attitude...
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This paper explores gendered impact of home-based work (HBW) on the capability to balance work with non-work in double-earner families with dependent children in two countries with distinct models of division of labour: Poland and Sweden.... more
This paper explores gendered impact of home-based work (HBW) on the capability to balance work with non-work in double-earner families with dependent children in two countries with distinct models of division of labour: Poland and Sweden. At first, I critically engage with the WLB conceptualization in HBW studies and try to address identified gaps. Driving from the theoretical concept of ‘burden of responsibilities’ and setting it in the capability approach, I propose to operationalize the capability to balance work with non-work as a latent construct, observed through two indicators of the burden of unpaid work responsibilities related to one’s engagement in paid work. To simultaneously measure this capability as a latent construct and the impact of HBW on this capability, I estimate a simple structural equation model for each country. The results show that men in both countries have higher capabilities to balance work with non-work than women, but the difference between genders is...
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In the present paper, we analyse the differences in the use of pre-school education from the point of view of local social citizenship theory. Adopting this perspective means that, the level of diffusion of pre-school education reflects... more
In the present paper, we analyse the differences in the use of pre-school education from the point of view of local social citizenship theory. Adopting this perspective means that, the level of diffusion of pre-school education reflects the level of entitlement to this type of education, an ingredient of the "social element of citizenship". Thus, in accordance with Marshall and his followers, we consider social citizenship most of all as a political phenomenon. Considering both economic (labour market conditions) and cultural (commune type: village vs. town) conditioning of local demand for pre-school education services, we shall concentrate on analysing local, political conditions of fulfilling the entitlement to this type of education. We shall also test the hypothesis, widespread in hitherto literature on the subject, of the basic difference factor for the participation in pre-school education being the commune's own income per capita. In the present paper, we demon...
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This article builds on a recent operationalization of inclusiveness of parental leave benefits proposed by Ivana Dobrotic and Sonja Blum and complements it by developing indicators of contextualized inclusiveness. This contextualized... more
This article builds on a recent operationalization of inclusiveness of parental leave benefits proposed by Ivana Dobrotic and Sonja Blum and complements it by developing indicators of contextualized inclusiveness. This contextualized approach sets the formal entitlement and eligibility rules of social rights to parental leave benefits in the relevant socio‐economic context of the country to which these rules apply. The aim is to shed light on the extent to which parts of the country’s population are actually excluded or are at risk of being excluded from access to parental leave at a given moment in time. This is strongly shaped by, among other factors, the structure of the population according to employment status, job tenure or type of contract. An important characteristic of the methodological approach adopted in this article is that the proposed contextualized indicators are based on easily and publicly available and internationally comparable data. This makes the approach easil...
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Koncepcja relatywnej deprywacji stała się podstawą do rozwoju badań uwzględniających nie tylko potrzeby biologiczne ludzi, ale także potrzeby społeczne – zależące od społeczeństwa, w którym ludzie żyją, a nie tylko od ich konstrukcji... more
Koncepcja relatywnej deprywacji stała się podstawą do rozwoju badań uwzględniających nie tylko potrzeby biologiczne ludzi, ale także potrzeby społeczne – zależące od społeczeństwa, w którym ludzie żyją, a nie tylko od ich konstrukcji organicznej i gatunkowej. Koncepcja ta opiera się na kategoriach zasobów i stylu życia. Ma również własną metodologię pomiaru, w tym wyznaczania katalogów potrzeb oraz granicy ubóstwa i minimalnego dochodu. Zainspirowała również część badaczy do stosowania uproszczonej metody otrzymywania dochodowych linii ubóstwa opartych na parametrze średniej lub mediany dochodów (ubóstwo relatywne). Podejścia relatywizujące ubóstwo – odnoszące je do przeciętnego poziomu życia są niekiedy uznawane za bardzo bliskie badaniu nierówności. Przedmiotem analizy w niniejszym artykule jest więc także różnorodnie rozumiana i mierzona kategoria nierówności, a także wzajemne relacje między tymi pojęciami. Zależności między nimi dotyczą zarówno powiązań na poziomie teorii wyjaśniających oraz konceptualizacji, jak i operacjonalizacji.
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Ze wstępu Prof. dr hab L. Balcerowicza: Ważnym rodzajem badań nad rozwojem gospodarki są porównania krajów, które niegdyś miały poziom dochodu na 1 mieszkańca, a potem ich gospodarcze drogi się rozeszły. Do tego nurtu badań należy... more
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Ważnym rodzajem badań nad rozwojem gospodarki są porównania krajów, które niegdyś miały poziom dochodu na 1 mieszkańca, a potem ich gospodarcze drogi się rozeszły. Do tego nurtu badań należy praca Anny Kurowskiej na temat Hiszpanii i Meksyku w latach 1961–2001 (...) Autorka wnikliwie i przejrzyście analizuje przyczyny tego ogromnego zróżnicowania (...) Praca Anny Kurowskiej powinna zainteresować każdego, dla kogo istotne są najważniejsze problemy ekonomii i współczesnego świata. Jest ona jasno i przystępnie napisana, a jednocześnie odznacza się głębokością prezentowanych analiz.
Z recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Wojciecha Maciejewskiego
Zaletą pracy jest również fakt, iż sposób dochodzenia do ostatecznych wniosków jest nie tylko zgodny z rygorem badań naukowych, ale przedstawiony w sposób niewymagający od czytelnika głębokiej wiedzy teorii makroekonomicznych i modelowania (...) praca, ze względu na wagę poruszanego problemu, trafny dobór krajów przyjętych do analizy, rygor metodologiczny oraz sposób prezentacji, w pełni zasługuje na udostępnienie jej polskiemu czytelnikowi.
Ważnym rodzajem badań nad rozwojem gospodarki są porównania krajów, które niegdyś miały poziom dochodu na 1 mieszkańca, a potem ich gospodarcze drogi się rozeszły. Do tego nurtu badań należy praca Anny Kurowskiej na temat Hiszpanii i Meksyku w latach 1961–2001 (...) Autorka wnikliwie i przejrzyście analizuje przyczyny tego ogromnego zróżnicowania (...) Praca Anny Kurowskiej powinna zainteresować każdego, dla kogo istotne są najważniejsze problemy ekonomii i współczesnego świata. Jest ona jasno i przystępnie napisana, a jednocześnie odznacza się głębokością prezentowanych analiz.
Z recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Wojciecha Maciejewskiego
Zaletą pracy jest również fakt, iż sposób dochodzenia do ostatecznych wniosków jest nie tylko zgodny z rygorem badań naukowych, ale przedstawiony w sposób niewymagający od czytelnika głębokiej wiedzy teorii makroekonomicznych i modelowania (...) praca, ze względu na wagę poruszanego problemu, trafny dobór krajów przyjętych do analizy, rygor metodologiczny oraz sposób prezentacji, w pełni zasługuje na udostępnienie jej polskiemu czytelnikowi.
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Od Redakcji: Autorka w sposób kompleksowy dokonała analizy przydatności wskaźników społecznych w polityce społecznej. Sięga do historii ruchu wskaźników społecznych, pytając o uwarunkowania obserwowanych zmian i ich związek z polityką... more
Od Redakcji: Autorka w sposób kompleksowy dokonała analizy przydatności wskaźników społecznych w polityce społecznej. Sięga do historii ruchu wskaźników społecznych, pytając o uwarunkowania obserwowanych zmian i ich związek z polityką społeczną. Dokonuje wnikliwej analizy teoretycznego i metodologicznego wymiaru budowania i wykorzystywania wskaźników społecznych.
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Dr hab. prof. UW Barbara Szatur-Jaworska:
Dla każdego badacza polityki społecznej oczywiste jest sięganie w badaniach po wskaźniki społeczne. Dr Anna Kurowska nie zadowalając się ową „oczywistością”, zadaje pytanie (a w istocie – jest to obszerna lista pytań szczegółowych) o ich przydatność jako instrumentu poznawania społecznej rzeczywistości w polityce społecznej – rozumianej i jako działalność praktyczna, i jako nauka. (...) Wybiera, jej zdaniem, kluczowe dla polityki społecznej funkcje wskaźników społecznych i przeprowadza ich wnikliwą analizę, pokazując zalety i ograniczenia, z punktu widzenia poszczególnych funkcji, owego instrumentu poznania. Co więcej, zaproponowaną wcześniej konstrukcję teoretyczno-metodologiczną wykorzystuje do oceny zastosowania wskaźników społecznych w polityce rodzinnej i polityce rynku pracy w Polsce.
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pisz:
Rozległa wiedza Autorki, bogata literatura krajowa i zagraniczna, interdyscyplinarne spojrzenie na problem, liczne przykłady ilustrujące istotę omawianych zagadnień, konteksty: polityczny i ekonomiczny, a także trafność uogólnień decydują o znaczących walorach poznawczych i dydaktycznych publikacji. Z uznaniem odnoszę się do osiągniętego przez Autorkę poziomu wiedzy teoretycznej i bogatego doświadczenia praktycznego, które umożliwiły bardzo dojrzałe spojrzenie na analizowane problemy. Na podkreślenie zasługują zarówno wnikliwość i szczegółowość analizy, jak też niezbędny dystans pozwalający na interdyscyplinarność ocen.
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Dr hab. prof. UW Barbara Szatur-Jaworska:
Dla każdego badacza polityki społecznej oczywiste jest sięganie w badaniach po wskaźniki społeczne. Dr Anna Kurowska nie zadowalając się ową „oczywistością”, zadaje pytanie (a w istocie – jest to obszerna lista pytań szczegółowych) o ich przydatność jako instrumentu poznawania społecznej rzeczywistości w polityce społecznej – rozumianej i jako działalność praktyczna, i jako nauka. (...) Wybiera, jej zdaniem, kluczowe dla polityki społecznej funkcje wskaźników społecznych i przeprowadza ich wnikliwą analizę, pokazując zalety i ograniczenia, z punktu widzenia poszczególnych funkcji, owego instrumentu poznania. Co więcej, zaproponowaną wcześniej konstrukcję teoretyczno-metodologiczną wykorzystuje do oceny zastosowania wskaźników społecznych w polityce rodzinnej i polityce rynku pracy w Polsce.
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pisz:
Rozległa wiedza Autorki, bogata literatura krajowa i zagraniczna, interdyscyplinarne spojrzenie na problem, liczne przykłady ilustrujące istotę omawianych zagadnień, konteksty: polityczny i ekonomiczny, a także trafność uogólnień decydują o znaczących walorach poznawczych i dydaktycznych publikacji. Z uznaniem odnoszę się do osiągniętego przez Autorkę poziomu wiedzy teoretycznej i bogatego doświadczenia praktycznego, które umożliwiły bardzo dojrzałe spojrzenie na analizowane problemy. Na podkreślenie zasługują zarówno wnikliwość i szczegółowość analizy, jak też niezbędny dystans pozwalający na interdyscyplinarność ocen.
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The chapter presents the details of Polish parental leave scheme with reference to other childcare related instruments and review of recent research on these issues (2015) The country note available at:... more
The chapter presents the details of Polish parental leave scheme with reference to other childcare related instruments and review of recent research on these issues (2015) The country note available at: http://www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/Leavenetwork/Country_notes/2015/poland.pm.pdf
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This is a chapter no. 6 from the Wolrd Bank's publication (2014) "Puzzles of Economic Growth" edited by L. Balcerowicz and A. Rzońca. Until the mid-19th century, these two countries had many features in common in terms of politics,... more
This is a chapter no. 6 from the Wolrd Bank's publication (2014) "Puzzles of Economic Growth" edited by L. Balcerowicz and A. Rzońca.
Until the mid-19th century, these two countries had many features in common in terms of politics, institutions, culture, as well as the economy. They generated almost identical GDP per capita and grew at a similar pace. Since 1960s the paths of the two countries have begun to diverge. In 1960–2001 average annual growth stood at 3.8 percent in Spain and at only 2 percent in Mexico. This chapter aims at providing relevant explanations referring to the concepts of stabilizig and propelling institutions.
Until the mid-19th century, these two countries had many features in common in terms of politics, institutions, culture, as well as the economy. They generated almost identical GDP per capita and grew at a similar pace. Since 1960s the paths of the two countries have begun to diverge. In 1960–2001 average annual growth stood at 3.8 percent in Spain and at only 2 percent in Mexico. This chapter aims at providing relevant explanations referring to the concepts of stabilizig and propelling institutions.
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Call for papers : Children in welfare states and family policy analysis (RC06 Family Research) Organised by: Laura Merla (UCLouvain) and Anna Kurowska (Warsaw University) In family policy and welfare regime research the child perspective... more
Call for papers : Children in welfare states and family policy analysis (RC06 Family Research)
Organised by: Laura Merla (UCLouvain) and Anna Kurowska (Warsaw University)
In family policy and welfare regime research the child perspective (understood here as children's position and entitlements, and the underlying normative conceptions of childhood) has been largely overlooked. Care-related welfare and family policies are mainly targeted at adult citizens/workers (especially women, as primary carers) and research has focused on women's rights and gender issues. Yet, the child perspective is an important analytical framework for these fields, in particular in the context of UNCRC, which established in 1989 children's right to have their best interests assessed and taken into account as a primary consideration in all public actions or decisions that affect them.
Studying the inequalities that children face in family and social policies becomes increasingly complex because of major contemporary trends such as the diversification of family forms, and processes of civic stratification in response to migratory flows. Shifting the focus from adult citizens/workers' right to give and receive care, to children's own right to be cared for, provides a useful lens to study these inequalities.
We therefore invite papers on topics, such as:
• Inequalities in children's access/eligibility to care-related schemes due to non-standard family models or non-standard citizenship status of parents ;
• Inequalities in access/eligibility and generosity of care-related schemes according to birth order;
• The role of grandparents in childcare and their access to childcare-related schemes;
• Reconsidering welfare regime and family policy typologies in view of new criteria formulated within the child perspective
• Combining the child perspective with gender equality
Submission deadline : 30 September 2017. Abstracts of max 300 words should be submitted online through this link : http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
Accepted participants for oral presentation and distributed papers will be notified in early December. Full papers will be due by 30 March 2018, and will be considered for publication in a journal special issue. Please note that only original contributions will be considered for publication.
To facilitate discussion and exchanges during the session, full papers will be circulated in advance to session participants and each paper will be assigned a discussant.
Organised by: Laura Merla (UCLouvain) and Anna Kurowska (Warsaw University)
In family policy and welfare regime research the child perspective (understood here as children's position and entitlements, and the underlying normative conceptions of childhood) has been largely overlooked. Care-related welfare and family policies are mainly targeted at adult citizens/workers (especially women, as primary carers) and research has focused on women's rights and gender issues. Yet, the child perspective is an important analytical framework for these fields, in particular in the context of UNCRC, which established in 1989 children's right to have their best interests assessed and taken into account as a primary consideration in all public actions or decisions that affect them.
Studying the inequalities that children face in family and social policies becomes increasingly complex because of major contemporary trends such as the diversification of family forms, and processes of civic stratification in response to migratory flows. Shifting the focus from adult citizens/workers' right to give and receive care, to children's own right to be cared for, provides a useful lens to study these inequalities.
We therefore invite papers on topics, such as:
• Inequalities in children's access/eligibility to care-related schemes due to non-standard family models or non-standard citizenship status of parents ;
• Inequalities in access/eligibility and generosity of care-related schemes according to birth order;
• The role of grandparents in childcare and their access to childcare-related schemes;
• Reconsidering welfare regime and family policy typologies in view of new criteria formulated within the child perspective
• Combining the child perspective with gender equality
Submission deadline : 30 September 2017. Abstracts of max 300 words should be submitted online through this link : http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
Accepted participants for oral presentation and distributed papers will be notified in early December. Full papers will be due by 30 March 2018, and will be considered for publication in a journal special issue. Please note that only original contributions will be considered for publication.
To facilitate discussion and exchanges during the session, full papers will be circulated in advance to session participants and each paper will be assigned a discussant.