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Journal articles on the topic "Childcare policies"

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Sekeráková Búriková, Zuzana. "Paid home-based childcare in Slovakia: Informal markets and care loops." Journal of European Social Policy 29, no. 5 (December 2019): 653–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928719873834.

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Drawing on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2015 with childcare workers and their employers, this article focuses on the employment of paid home-based childcare in Slovakia, where local families prefer to employ local childcarers, rather than migrant childcarers. After a brief discussion of previous studies on home-based paid childcare and social policies, I introduce the concept of care loops and summarize family-oriented policies in Slovakia. I explain that relying on social networks and trust results in hiring local women rather than migrant childcarers. I then examine the motivations of working mothers for hiring childcare workers. I show how mothers use both structural (social policy) and cultural factors (ideals of motherhood and childrearing) to explain their childcare choices. I argue that hiring full-time childcare workers is both a way to fill the care gap and a response to a cultural preference for mother-like care for infants and toddlers. This cultural preference also results in hiring part-time childcare workers who are responsible for micromobilities of care and who help parents to manage care loops.
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Lawson, Deborah. "See-saw childcare policies." Early Years Educator 15, no. 1 (May 2013): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2013.15.1.12a.

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Park, Kyung Ja, Ock Kyeung Hwang, and Hyuk Jun Moon. "Childcare Policies In Korea." Journal of Korean Child Care and Education 9, no. 5 (October 31, 2013): 513–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14698/jkcce.2013.9.5.513.

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Saraceno, Chiara. "Childcare needs and childcare policies: A multidimensional issue." Current Sociology 59, no. 1 (January 2011): 78–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392110385971.

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Yerkes, Mara A., and Jana Javornik. "Creating capabilities: Childcare policies in comparative perspective." Journal of European Social Policy 29, no. 4 (November 28, 2018): 529–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928718808421.

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This article analyses childcare services in six countries, assessing this policy instrument’s potential to facilitate parents’ capabilities for arranging childcare in a way they have reason to value. It draws on Sen’s capability approach to conceptualize and assess childcare policy design across five key aspects of childcare provision (accessibility, availability, affordability, quality and flexibility) in a country-comparative perspective. The conceptualization of the multifaceted nature of childcare provides compelling insights into the complexity of comparing childcare services across countries. The ensuing analysis and comprehensive overview of national policies challenges the idea of a defamilialization policy cluster, which masks key distinctions between public and market service provision. The more nuanced conceptualization and operationalization of childcare policy design through the capability approach reveals parents’ real opportunities for arranging childcare and the varying effects of policy design across gender and class. In addition, it goes beyond implicit commodification assumptions and opens up space for parents’ potential desire for multiple care arrangement possibilities.
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Gao, Melody Ge, and Hangqing Ruan. "Work-Family Policies and Gender Inequalities in Childcare Time." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8 (January 2022): 237802312211426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231221142677.

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Work-family policies are promoted to reduce gender inequalities in childcare time. However, the association between work-family policies and childcare time is complicated by the conditions of the policies and how mothers and fathers perform childcare. The authors examine whether three widely discussed work-family policies—paid parental leave, flextime, and flexplace—are associated with reduced gender differences in two dimensions of childcare time: solo versus shared care with a partner and basic versus developmental childcare activities. Using 2017–2018 Leave and Job Flexibilities Module of the American Time Use Survey, this study indicates that gender inequalities in childcare time decrease among parents who have access to paid parental leave or frequently use the flexplace policy, which provide both available time and direct exposure to childcare tasks. Policies with these characteristics also help close gender gaps in solo and basic childcare time that are vital in shaping gender inequalities in society.
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Simpson, Fiona. "Spotlight on childcare funding policies." Children and Young People Now 2021, no. 3 (March 2, 2021): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/cypn.2021.3.12a.

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Yoo, HaeMi. "Free Choices on the Childcare Policies." Society and Theory 15 (November 30, 2009): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.17209/st.2009.11.15.297.

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Näre, Lena, and Elisabeth Wide. "Local loops of care in the metropolitan region of Helsinki: A time-economy perspective." Journal of European Social Policy 29, no. 5 (December 2019): 600–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928719867788.

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Finland subsidizes caring for young children at home by several cash-for-care schemes. In 2001, it adopted a tax credit for domestic services, including care. This article adopts an everyday perspective to social policies to analyse how Finnish cash-for-care policies produce local care loops using a time-economy approach. It examines the increase in private services alongside public ones through an analysis of the organization of childcare in time and space, paying attention to the micro-mobilities and daily choreographies of care. Drawing on interviews with Finnish employers of privately employed childcarers, our results demonstrate that childcare policies and tax credits are central means through which childcare is increasingly being privatized. We argue that the notion of time as a scarce resource and the organization of care loops in a way that maximizes time available for wage labour and ‘quality time’ point towards the emergence of a classed time discipline. Time becomes a commodity with not only monetary value but also another inherent value, captured in the notion of ‘quality time with children’. Significantly, this quality time does not include time used for other reproductive labour tasks, such as cleaning or cooking.
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Yeon Seung Lee, 김현정, 최진령, and 이민영. "Recognition and importance of childcare teacher on childcare support policies in Busan." Korean Journal of Early Childhood Education 36, no. 6 (December 2016): 423–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18023/kjece.2016.36.6.018.

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Ives, Mary Katherine. "Implementation of New Childcare Policies in New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/953.

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The high number of working parents in the U.S. means that there are millions of child in need to care during working hours. Research shows that the quality of this care is of high importance in a child's development, both in the short-term and the long-term. States have used a variety of policy tools to regulate child care and to attempt to improve the quality of care. Louisiana has recently implemented a new policy called the Quality Rating System. Directors of centers in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, were interviewed to determine the impact of participation in QRS. Centers are struggling to meet the requirements and feel that changes need to be made for the program to have a better outcome.
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Strang, Michelle. "Best Practices for Strengthening Physical Activity Policies at Childcare." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25978.

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The sharp increase in childhood obesity in recent years has been dramatic and continues to negatively impact children and their families. Low levels of physical activity (PA) during the preschool years is likely a contributing factor. Considering that most children in the U.S. attend some type of childcare, this is an ideal venue for implementing policies that shape children?s activity and sedentary (SED) patterns. The purpose of this dissertation was twofold. The first study compared levels of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and SED in children attending licensed childcare centers with a PA-policy with those attending centers without a PA policy. The second study identified correlates (child-level, teacher-level, and classroom-level) of children?s MVPA and SED at childcare. Preschoolers (191), lead teachers (23), and center directors (12) from 12 licensed childcare centers (6 intervention/6 comparison) participated in the study. Children wore accelerometers during childcare for 3 days in the spring (April/May) of 2016. For the first study, separate mixed-model ANCOVAs were utilized to examine group differences in MVPA and SED, with gender entered as a covariate and classroom as a random factor. Levels of MVPA (6.74 min/h vs. 5.62 min/h, p = 0.06) and SED (29.97 min/h vs. 31.30 min/h, p = 0.32) were not significantly different between intervention and comparison groups, Findings from study one suggest the implementing a PA policy may not improving children?s PA behaviors, although compliance to policy guidelines was low. For study two, accelerometry data were utilized to examine potential correlates (measured by surveys completed by parents, teachers, and directors) of children?s PA and SED. Correlation and mixed-model regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between 18 potential correlates across multiple domains (demographic, anthropometric, social, and environmental), accounting for gender and clustering of activity within classrooms. Results from study two indicate that gender (boys) (p < .01), time spent outdoors (p < .05) and the amount of play equipment available (p < .05) were positively associated with MVPA, and gender (boys) (p < .01), and time spent outdoors (p < .05) were negatively associated with SED.
North Dakota State University. College of Health Professions (Clinical/Translational Grant)
North Dakota State University. College of Human Development and Education (Student Research and Travel Fund)
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Ahlroos, Källhed Ivar. "Bridging the integration gap : The relationship between women's employment, childcare costs and integration policies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295704.

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There is an unexplained gap in employment between native-born and foreign-born women in most European countries and it is not evident how it can be closed. This essay studies some possible explanations of the gap by looking at the effect of childcare costs and integration policies, through regression analysis. The individual effects are not significant, but the results do however give some indication that the degree of integration policies in a country can change the effect of welfare policies such as childcare.
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Javornik, Jana Skrbinsek. "Exploring maternal employment in post-socialist countries : understanding the implications of childcare policies." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/173805/.

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Access to paid employment has conspicuous economic, political, cultural and social implications, for both personal autonomy and gender equality. Eight most advanced postsocialist countries that entered the European Union in 2004 have boasted comparatively high full-time employment rates for women since the socialist period. However, the proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they care for pre-school children differs significantly among these countries. This thesis examines why women’s employment rates drop so sharply subsequent to childbirth in some of the post-socialist countries, but not the others. It seeks to answer this question by exploring childcare policies. The main research question is whether, and how, these policies shape mothers’ employment in the eight countries. This thesis first analyzes the emancipatory potential of national policies on childcare leave and formal childcare service provision between 2000 and 2008, in order to determine whether or not childcare policies provide options for carers to engage in paid employment. It probes the applicability of the varieties of familialism literature to the post-socialist countries, and draws attention to policy characteristics that received insufficient attention in earlier comparative research. It finds that among eight post-socialist countries Slovenia and Lithuania create conditions for women’s continuous employment, while Hungary, the Czech Republic and Estonia provide financial incentives for women to retreat from the labour force for a longer period after childbirth, whereas parents in Poland, Slovakia and Latvia are left nearly without public support. Drawing upon maternal employment data, the thesis finds evidence in favour of the childcare policies explanation. In countries with gender-neutral leave of moderate duration and affordable, adequate and accessible formal childcare services the employment rates for mothers with pre-school children are significantly higher than in other countries. Such policies are especially important for the employment of low-skilled and low-income mothers with pre-school children, who are usually employed in less protected and less secured jobs. The thesis also suggests that educational attainment and the income needs of households suppress rather than rival the childcare policies explanation, and that the unregulated service markets and day care by other family members account for mothers’ employment in countries with limited state support. The findings in this thesis underpin the importance of childcare policies for enhancing women’s continuous employment and indicate that childcare policies have broader social implications upon women’s economic and personal autonomy. The thesis sheds new light on childcare policies and maternal employment trends in eight post-socialist countries. It helps differentiate their overly simplistic characterization in earlier comparative research, and allows a more meaningful discussion of how childcare policies shape employment practices of mothers with pre-school children.
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Martin, Jennifer Dotson. "A Descriptive Analysis of Tobacco Use Policies Among Select Family Day Homes in Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36463.

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Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been well established as a danger to children. Exposure to secondhand smoke can cause coughing and wheezing, bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections, asthma, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Childhood exposure to ETS may also increase the risk of developing leukemia and lymphoma in childhood (Mitchell, 1997) as well as developing lung cancer as an adult (Glantz, 1992). Despite the great strides recently made in the implementation of regulatory measures to safeguard children from ETS in public places like schools, there remains significant concern regarding children's exposure at home and in their out-of-home care facilities (Ashley and Ferrence, 1998, Jarvis, 2000). In 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there were 336,749 Virginia youth exposed to ETS in the home (State Tobacco Control Highlights, 1999). The purpose of this study was to ascertain the number of family day home providers who allow smoking in their home and/or those that have some type of smoking policy. The sample consisted of 746 licensed, registered or locally approved family day home providers through the Department of Social Services. Of these childcare providers, 81.5% (n=608) completed a questionnaire about their tobacco use policy and its effects. An overwhelming majority (94.7%) of providers reported having a tobacco use policy in their family day home. Most of the providers, 67.6% indicated that smoking was allowed outdoors only while 26.3% noted that smoking was not allowed anywhere at any time, indoor or outdoor. Other policy specifics and background information are discussed in the study. The implications of these findings and recommendations for future training and educational programs for family day home providers are also reviewed.
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Schneider, Susanne [Verfasser]. "HR Policies and Maternal Labor Supply : The Example of Employer-Supported Childcare / Susanne Schneider." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1133461476/34.

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Schubert, Henrik-Alexander. "Encouraging Mothers : The effect of German regional childcare policies on maternal employment between 2006 and 2018." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183724.

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Childbearing is often associated with employment interruptions in women’s careers. Since 2005, the German federal government has implemented childcare reforms aiming at expanding the suitable infrastructure for children under the age of three, which should facilitate and accelerate the return to employment. The reforms have been a paradigm shift, because they show a shift from a traditional breadwinner family model to a dual earner-carer model. Despite federal leadership in childcare reforms, the characteristics of the care infrastructure in Germany vary by state and over time, which may contribute to different employment-interruption lengths. The study at hand evaluates Germany’s recent childcare reforms regarding the impact on maternal employment by examining relationships between childcare-characteristics -namely quality and availability- and mothers’ employment interruptions. A piecewise-constant exponential model is used to capture the cross-state and over time differences in childcare and their impact on the timing of women’s return to employment within the first three years after birth of their first child. The study uses individual data from the Pairfam 10.0 study and childcare indicators, which are collected by the federal and state’s statistical bureaus. The risk population includes 927 first-time mothers who gave birth between March 2006 and March 2018. Within this period, 525 first-time mothers return to employment within the first three years after childbirth.   A significant positive effect of the childcare reform on maternal employment is revealed. Both the availability expansion and the quality improvements are associated with earlier returns to employment, establishing both institutional and cultural effects of childcare policies. An educational gradient of the effect of childcare quality on maternal employment was tested, but the results were not significant.
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Ball, Wendy Susan. "Making a difference, promoting gender equality? : transforming childcare policies for mothers, fathers and children in Wales." Thesis, Swansea University, 2006. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42977.

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This thesis explores the connections between childcare, gender relations and social policy in post-devolution Wales. The changing childcare policy landscape in the United Kingdom is discussed and the making of childcare policy in Wales following devolution is traced. New Labour parenting and childcare policy agendas are assessed in relation to claims that policy will progress gender equality, offer parental choice, extend support to parents and meet the interests of children. Following analysis of policy texts, the assessment proceeds with reference to interviews with policy actors, presenting their perspectives on policy delivery in Wales. The degree to which a distinctive social policy agenda has been enabled by devolution is discussed. It is argued that there is evidence of a different style and vision in Wales that may provide opportunities for social movements. Guided by feminist standpoint theory and 'institutional ethnography', the study then turns to the childcare practices of mothers, fathers and grandmothers living in Swansea. The main focus is on the mothers ' accounts, how their caring practices are shaped by gendered moral codes and ideologies relating to the conduct of mothering. Key concepts used throughout the analysis include 'sensitive mothering' (Walkerdine and Lucey, 1989) and 'intensive mothering' (Hays, 1996); 'gendered moral rationalities' (Duncan and Edwards, 1999) and 'social/ emotional capital' (Reay, 2005). Nancy Fraser's (1997) discussion of claims for 'redistribution' and for 'recognition' is used to highlight tensions in policy agendas, gender politics and parental preferences. In conclusion the importance o f developing a feminist 'ethics of care' in childcare/ parenting policy is discussed. It is argued that childcare policy in Wales has been limited by a narrow understanding of the connections between parental preference, gender and childcare and the interconnections between informal care provided through gendered networks of social support and formal childcare provision need to be recognised.
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Giuliani, Giuliana. "Are there any effects of the cash for care policy on female employment in Sweden?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-114094.

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This study focuses on the effects of the cash for care policy (CFC, in Swedish vårdnadsbidrag) on female employment in Sweden. The CFC was introduced in Sweden in 2008. It consists of a flat-rate sum paid by the municipalities to parents of children between age one and three, who decide to provide care for their children and do not use publicly subsidized daycare. The policy has been the object of heated political and social debates. The main object of the reform is increasing parents’ “freedom to choose”, but the policy is also feared to be a “housewife trap” by those opposing the reform. The study provides an overview of the use of CFC during the first years since its introduction, and an estimate of short-term effects of the use of CFC on female employment. Since it is voluntary for the municipalities to adopt the policy, municipalities have been analyzed as in a quasi-experiment, where some have been “treated” with the CFC policy, and some have not. First, female employment trends in similar types of treated and control municipalities were compared. Secondly, linear regressions were used to estimate the effects of the CFC policy on changes in female employment rates after the introduction of the policy, controlling for various characteristics of the municipalities such as: urban/rural areas, shares of highly educated women, shares of low educated women, shares of foreign-born women, total fertility rates. The study shows that, in general, the municipalities that offered the policy had higher female employment rates than the municipalities that did not offer it. Nevertheless, in rural areas the adoption of CFC had negative effects on female employment. On average, in rural areas female employment growth rates relative to years 2007-2012 in municipalities offering the policy were 2.42 percentage points lower than in control municipalities, all else being equal. Negative effects of CFC on female employment in municipalities with high shares of low educated women, high shares of foreign-born women and high fertility rates were not confirmed. The CFC policy has been recently adopted, mostly in urban municipalities and the proportion of parents that used CFC has been relatively low. Long terms effects of CFC on female employment will likely be dependent on whether the policy will be more widely used in the future and where.
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Otuoma, Susan, Barbero Julia Martinez, and Omer Mohammed. "Social Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Care Policies for Children in Kenya." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-19827.

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The social phenomenon of children without parental care and those at risk of separation from their parents has gained considerable global attention in recent years. A key concern is the over-reliance on institutional care mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America as the default form of alternative care for such children. Extensive research points to mostly negative impact of separation of children from families and institutionalization of children which affects their health outcomes and development. In response to this global crisis, the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children were developed in 2010. Kenya domesticated the guidelines in 2014 and is in the process of implementation. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development and more specifically the Social Sustainability Principles are used in this study to assess the extent to which the UN Guidelines, Kenya Guidelines and implementation of alternative care of children in Kenya align to Social Sustainability. This research finds that the guidelines are highly aligned to social sustainability although their implementation points to major structural obstacles that if minimized will promote social sustainability of alternative care in Kenya. A coherent well-coordinated approach that takes a systems perspective and links to the mainstream social development agenda is recommended.
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Books on the topic "Childcare policies"

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Saxonberg, Steven. The development of Czech childcare policies. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON) together with the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2012.

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McKenna, Anne. Childcare and equal opportunities: Policies and services for childcare in Ireland. Dublin: Employment Equality Agency, 1988.

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DeLapp, Lynn. More than babysitting: Rethinking childcare and preschool policies. [California]: Assembly Office of Research, 1989.

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Holtermann, Sally. Becoming a breadwinner: Policies to assist lone parents with childcare. London: Daycare Trust, 1993.

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Cohen, Bronwen. Caring for children: Services and policies for childcare and equal opportunities in the United Kingdom : report forthe European Commission's Childcare Network. London: Commission of the European Communities, 1988.

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Immervoll, Herwig. Can parents afford to work? childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2006.

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Children, families, states: Time policies of childcare, preschool, and primary education in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

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Donnelly, Cathy. Family friendly policies and subsidised childcare: Recruitment and retention tools in the hospitality industry?. (s.l: The Author), 2000.

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Children, families, and states: Time policies of childcare, preschool, and primary education in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Fathers, Childcare and Work: Cultures, Practices and Policies. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Childcare policies"

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Heitlinger, Alena. "Childcare Policies and Programmes." In Women’s Equality, Demography and Public Policies, 221–60. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230374782_9.

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Eydal, Guðný Björk. "Childcare Policies at a Crossroads." In The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market, 38–55. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230314054_3.

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Vandenbroeck, Michel. "Early Childhood Care and Education Policies that Make a Difference." In The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, 169–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_8.

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AbstractIn split systems, where childcare has historically been separated from preschool, childcare has only recently been recognized for its educational potential. Paradoxically, now that its potential for children, parents, and communities is widely recognized, accessibility, affordability and quality are under pressure. Based on—mostly European—research, we analyse structural barriers that explain unequal take-up of childcare. We look, among others, at issues of lack of places, geographical disparities, and costs. We also look at educational process quality, especially for the youngest children. In so doing, we analyze how policies affect these issues and find that policies that consider childcare as an integral part of public early childhood care and education yield better results. In contrast, the commodification (privatisation) of childcare with its shift from supply side to demand-side funding risks to hinder accessibility and to lower quality.
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Fraisse, Laurent, and Anna Escobedo. "Changing Family Needs and Local Childcare Policies." In Social Vulnerability in European Cities, 103–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137346926_4.

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Kovács, Borbála. "Introduction: Family Policies and the Making of Childcare Arrangements." In Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare, 1–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78661-2_1.

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Borchorst, Anette. "Danish Child-Care Policies within Path — Timing, Sequence, Actors and Opportunity Structures." In Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe, 126–41. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230232778_8.

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Mahon, Evelyn, and Jemimah Bailey. "The Incomplete Revolution: Development of Childcare Policies in Ireland." In Social Indicators Research Series, 149–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16163-1_10.

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Javornik, Jana, and Mara A. Yerkes. "Conceptualizing National Family Policies: A Capabilities Approach." In The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, 141–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_7.

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AbstractComparative family policy research has advanced significantly in recent years. The growing availability of more and better data have improved our understanding of cross-national similarities and differences in family policies, as well as how they shape the lives of different families. Despite these advancements, comparative family policy research continues to face difficulties. The multifaceted nature of family policies makes cross-country comparisons complex. Conceptualizing our theoretical understanding of which policy aspects matter and why as well as operationalizing them into measurable indicators, often remains problematic for comparative analyses. Using examples of British and Swedish policies on childcare, a policy area particularly prone to conceptual challenges, we discuss the difficulties involved in conceptualizing family policies in comparative research. We argue that taking a capabilities approach provides a useful way forward in the field and show how such a conceptual framework allows us to more meaningfully analyze both work-family policies and their outcomes.
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Sirén, Sebastian, Laure Doctrinal, Wim Van Lancker, and Rense Nieuwenhuis. "Childcare Indicators for the Next Generation of Research." In The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, 627–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_24.

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AbstractThis chapter argues for the importance of developing theoretically grounded family policy indicators, with emphasis on childcare/ECEC indicators. The chapter critically introduces the conceptual frameworks underpinning the most prevalent currents in comparative research, and then presents the most prominent empirical approaches utilized in existing studies. Next, it maps the availability of comparative data on the most widely used indicators and discusses the main sources from which this data originates. The final section concludes by pointing toward some challenges for the current research agenda, along with some tentative solutions. In particular, we argue for the need to engage in a research agenda that integrates family policies, including social care services, as essential components of social citizenship.
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Fagnani, Jeanne. "Childcare Policies in France: The Influence of Organizational Changes in the Workplace." In From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being, 385–402. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_21.

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Conference papers on the topic "Childcare policies"

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Sunyoung, Seo. "The Survey on Perception and Evaluation of policies on Marriage, Childbirth, and Childcare among College Students in Their 20s." In Art, Culture, Game, Graphics, Broadcasting and Digital Contents 2015. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2015.101.20.

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Buell, Martha. "Alignment of Expulsion and Suspension Policies Among State-Level Child Care Development Fund Plans, Childcare Licensing, the Quality Rating and Improvement System, and Pre-K." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1881987.

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Reports on the topic "Childcare policies"

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Abufhele, Alejandra, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, and Pamela Soto-Ramirez. Developmental losses in young children from pre-primary program closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003920.

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The learning and developmental losses from pre-primary program closures due to COVID-19 may be unprecedented. These disruptions early in life, when the brain is more sensitive to environmental changes, can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the effects of school closures on older children, there is currently no evidence on such losses for children in their early years. This paper is among the first to quantify the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile, where school and childcare closures lasted for about a year. We use a unique dataset collected face-to-face in December 2020, which includes child development indicators for general development, language development, social-emotional development, and executive function. We are able to use a first difference strategy because Chile has a history of collecting longitudinal data on children as part of their national social policies monitoring strategy. This allows us to construct a valid comparison group from the 2017 longitudinal data. We find adverse impacts on children in 2020 compared to children interviewed in 2017 in most development areas. In particular, nine months after the start of the pandemic, we find a loss in language development of 0.25 SDs. This is equivalent to the impact on a childs language development of having a mother with approximately five years less education. Timely policies are needed to mitigate these enormous losses.
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Redmond, Paul, Seamus McGuinness, and Klavs Ciprikis. A universal basic income for Ireland: Lessons from the international literature. ESRI, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/rs146.

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A universal basic income (UBI) is defined as a universal, unconditional cash payment that is made regularly, is sufficient to live on, is not means tested, carries no work requirements and is paid on an individual basis. This study examines the international evidence on universal basic incomes and identifies key issues for consideration in the design of any UBI pilot for Ireland. Despite the mainstream interest in UBI as a potential policy tool, relatively little is known about the associated consequences of such policies. Even the definition of a UBI appears to be poorly understood and is often misused in the public discourse. Several pilot studies have been recently implemented across different countries. However, some pilot studies depart from the accepted definition of UBI. For example, some are not universal, in that they only target a specific subgroup of the population and/or have eligibility restrictions based on earnings. Others provide a relatively low level of payment, which may fall short of what an individual could reasonably be expected to live on. There are a number of potentially positive impacts associated with a UBI. A universal, unconditional payment could eliminate the stigma associated with welfare receipt. If replacing existing welfare payments, a UBI would also involve lower transaction costs, both on the recipient (in terms of the application procedure) and on Government (in terms of administering the payment). Universal, unconditional payments would also avoid situations where people choose not to work in order to retain means-tested benefits. UBI could give individuals the freedom to turn down or leave insecure, exploitative or low-paid work in pursuit of better or improved work opportunities. In addition, it would mean that persons in informal and often unpaid work, such as childcare and eldercare, which is mostly done by women, receive some compensation for their labour. Empirical results from several pilot studies have found evidence of positive health impacts following the implementation of a UBI. In terms of potential disadvantages, a UBI, by definition, may not target those that are most in need, as a large percentage of recipients will be high-earning individuals. Furthermore, the cost of a UBI is likely to be very expensive, even if other existing benefits (such as unemployment benefits) are no longer required. The net impacts of a UBI on labour supply are unclear, with both positive and negative influences on labour market participation potentially arising as a consequence of a UBI. In this study, we undertake some basic calculations relating to four possible UBI approaches, all of which would involve an unconditional payment to every individual aged over 18 in Ireland.
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