Narratives on the transition to parenthood in eight European countries: the importance of gender culture and welfare regime

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Evertsson
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Gender Culture

scholarly journals Parentalization of Same-Sex Couples: Family Formation and Leave Rights in Five Northern European Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 397-428
Author(s):  
Marie Evertsson ◽  
Eva Jaspers ◽  
Ylva Moberg
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Married Female

AbstractThis chapter introduces the concept of parentalization, defined as the ability to become parents and be recognized as such, both legally and via social policies. Applying the concept to same-sex couples, we examine how states may facilitate or hinder the transition to parenthood through laws and policies in five Northern European countries; Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Trends in the number of children zero years of age in married/cohabiting same-sex couples suggest a link between parentalization and realized parenthood. As partly indicated by these trends, parentalization is a gendered concept, and parenthood is more readily available to some couples than to others. Perhaps most importantly, very few same-sex couples have been able to jointly adopt a child. The fact that married female couples face fewer barriers to parentalization than other non-traditional couples partly reflects dominant norms on gender and motherhood.

Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Grunow ◽  
Marie Evertsson
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Heterosexual Couple ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Cross National

This article ties together key findings from a 12-year cross-national qualitative collaboration that involved researchers from nine European countries. Our comparative analysis draws on longitudinal heterosexual couple data, in which both partners were interviewed first, during pregnancy, and second, between six months and two-and-a-half years after childbirth. We tackle the relational ties that shape family practices from a lifecourse perspective, emphasising the interdependent construction of motherhood and fatherhood identities, couples’ institutional embeddedness and linked lives. Analysing the data by combining the relationality and lifecourse perspectives brings forth how women and men enact agency in a constrained environment while making consequential decisions about their own, their partners’ and children’s futures. Whereas the gender culture provides parents with arguments and discourses to motivate their work-care plans, the policy context limits how new parents interact as they seek to escape or cope with institutionally prescribed gender divisions of work and care.

Poverty Transitions and Trigger Events across EU Groups of Countries: Evidence from EU-SILC

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
VERONICA POLIN ◽  
MICHELE RAITANO
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Member States ◽  
Household Characteristics ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Poverty Transitions ◽  
New Eu Member States ◽  
Trigger Events

AbstractThe dynamics of income poverty in European countries have been extensively analysed using the ECHP dataset, run from 1994 to 2001 in the ‘old’ fifteen member states. Using EU-SILC longitudinal data, the purpose of this paper is to update this type of analysis to 2006 by including the ‘new’ EU member states and focusing on poverty mobility. The demographic and economic events associated with households falling into or exiting poverty are analysed through both descriptive analyses and logit regressions. The analysis compares six groups of countries clustered according to welfare regime typologies. The results reveal that most poverty transitions are associated with economic events, but the entry rates after the occurrence of demographic events are also crucial. With respect to poverty entry rates, differences among groups of countries are consistent with their welfare regime typologies, but a less clear ranking among them emerges when considering poverty exit rates and when regressions are estimated while controlling for household characteristics.

scholarly journals Subjective and Objective Health of the Population Aged 50+ and the Welfare State Regimes in 16 European Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Romaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Objective Health ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Health at 50+ issues are particularly important now, when the inevitable increase in the old-age dependency ratio calls for governmental involvement in measures that are aimed at mitigating the negative effects of population aging in Europe. The investigations of differences between the subjective and objective health measures in a welfare state regime perspective have not been conducted before although it can be assumed that such analyses might provide valuable information about the impact of welfare regime on health as well as about the interchangeability between the self-reported and measured health. The main objective of this study was to determine whether the type of welfare regime influences the subjective and objective health of the population aged 50+. Hierarchical logistic regression models were applied to examine this subject. Analyses were conducted for 16 European countries (N=57236) classified into four different types of welfare regimes: social democratic, post-socialist, conservative-corporatist and Mediterranean. The empirical results suggest that the type of welfare regime helps to explain the variations in the subjective health between countries as well as the differences between individuals. However, it does not explain the differences in objective health when analyzing all socio-economic groups collectively. Analyzes performed within defined socioeconomic groups showed that the types of welfare regimes differentiated between both subjective and objective health in the majority of defined groups, however, the health of those least well-of in all of the analyzed welfare regimes was found to be similar. The different results obtained for both subjective and objective health in post-socialist and Mediterranean countries suggest that these two types of measurement should not be used interchangeably.

Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brienna Perelli-Harris ◽  
Michaela Kreyenfeld ◽  
Wendy Sigle-Rushton ◽  
Renske Keizer ◽  
Trude Lappegård ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Union Status

Expenditures for Long-Term Care

GeroPsych ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Rodrigues ◽  
Andrea E. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Population Differences ◽  
Term Care

This paper concerns itself with public expenditures for long-term care (LTC) and seeks to make sense of the differences among European countries, using the concept of de-familialization under the welfare regime framework. For this we rely on a comparative analysis of data on public expenditures for 22 countries in Europe and on private expenditures for a smaller set of countries, supplemented by other indicators. Rather than simply mirroring dissimilarities in the aging process of the respective population, differences in public expenditures seem to reflect the degree to which care is still a strong family obligation in some countries. This is visible also in the way welfare states support care through cash or services, and potentially different public/private mixes of financing.

scholarly journals Patients with rheumatoid arthritis facing sick leave or work disability meet varying regulations: a study among rheumatologists and patients from 44 European countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (11) ◽  
pp. 1472-1479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Putrik ◽  
Sofia Ramiro ◽  
Francis Guillemin ◽  
Márta Péntek ◽  
Francisca Sivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Work Disability ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Large Heterogeneity

ObjectivesTo describe and explore differences in formal regulations around sick leave and work disability (WD) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as well as perceptions by rheumatologists and patients on the system’s performance, across European countries.MethodsWe conducted three cross-sectional surveys in 50 European countries: one on work (re-)integration and social security (SS) system arrangements in case of sick leave and long-term WD due to RA (one rheumatologist per country), and two among approximately 15 rheumatologists and 15 patients per country on perceptions regarding SS arrangements on work participation. Differences in regulations and perceptions were compared across categories defined by gross domestic product (GDP), type of social welfare regime, European Union (EU) membership and country RA WD rates.ResultsForty-four (88%) countries provided data on regulations, 33 (75%) on perceptions of rheumatologists (n=539) and 34 (77%) on perceptions of patients (n=719). While large variation was observed across all regulations across countries, no relationship was found between most of regulations or income compensation and GDP, type of SS system or rates of WD. Regarding perceptions, rheumatologists in high GDP and EU-member countries felt less confident in their role in the decision process towards WD (β=−0.5 (95% CI −0.9 to −0.2) and β=−0.5 (95% CI −1.0 to −0.1), respectively). The Scandinavian and Bismarckian system scored best on patients’ and rheumatologists’ perceptions of regulations and system performance.ConclusionsThere is large heterogeneity in rules and regulations of SS systems across Europe in relation to WD of patients with RA, and it cannot be explained by existing welfare regimes, EU membership or country’s wealth.

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