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Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512446
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L'innovation sociale dans les services d'aide à domicile. Les apports d'une lecture polanyienne et féministe
Degavre, Florence; Nyssens, Marthe - In: Revue française de socio-Economie n° 2 (2008) 2, pp. 79-98
The aim of this contribution is to analyze the dynamic of social innovation of home-care services. Based on the works … of Polanyi which analyse socio-economic dynamics and on feminist theories in the field of care, we develop an original … innovation. We apply this conceptual framework to the empirical field of new home-care services, which have emerged 20 years ago …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008926897
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The care paradox: devaluing and idealising care, the mother, and mother nature
Bigo, Vinca - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 117-133
Care work, such as that carried out by 'angelic' nurses, mothers, and other carers, is treated in a dualistic fashion … paper centres on care, nature is also both widely idealised and taken for granted. Thus, what is true of 'care' in our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755615
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‘White knuckle care work’: violence, gender and new public management in the voluntary sector
Baines, Donna; Cunningham, Ian - In: Work, Employment & Society 25 (2011) 4, pp. 760-776
-profit care settings. This article provides insights into how the predominantly female (paid) workers’ orientations to work, the … desire to care and the intrinsic rewards from working in a non-profit context interact with the organization of work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137332
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Hybrids, Political Economy, and Macroeconomics
Braunstein, Elissa - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 44 (2012) 3, pp. 293-297
In this piece I comment on Nancy’s Folbre’s David Gordon Memorial Lecture for the 2012 Allied Social Science Associations meetings, focusing on the strengths of how she combines Marxian sensibilities with neoclasscial analytical tools, the advantages of her proposed definition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137411
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Gender, family and care provision in developing countries:Towards gender equality
Mínguez, Almudena Moreno - In: Progress in Development Studies 12 (2012) 4, pp. 275-300
This article describes the way in which the scientific literature approaches the issue of gender and care in developing … analyses of care from a gender perspective in developing countries on certain conceptual and theoretical works on care which … quantify unpaid care work in relation to gender equality. The aim of this research work is to contribute empirical evidence on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011138819
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Work/care policies in European welfare states: Continuing variety or change towards a common model?
Blome, Agnes - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2011
This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a … comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of … work and care are analyzed based on a comprehensive data collection. Although an ongoing trend towards the support of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984604
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Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Thompson, Robin; Xavier, Ana - eSocialSciences - 2010
, perceived as resulting in better care (e.g. more professional attention), a unique dataset is constructed on hospital length of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505785
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Contextualizing rationality: Mature student carers and higher education in England
Gonzalez-Arnal, Stella; Kilkey, Majella - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 1, pp. 85-111
In England, the Government has implemented policies to increase and diversify participation in higher education (HE). Changes in funding arrangements that shift the burden of paying for education from the state to individuals have also been introduced. To reconcile the contradiction between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005278302
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Work/care policies in European welfare states: Continuing variety or change towards a common model?
Blome, Agnes - 2011
This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a … comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of … work and care are analyzed based on a comprehensive data collection. Although an ongoing trend towards the support of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308655