Is it commodification, de-commodification, familialism or de-familialization? Parental leave in Sweden and Finland.

Autor/in	Schleutker, Elina
Institution	Institut für Politikwissenschaft (Tübingen). Abteilung Innen- und EU-Politische Theorie. Professur für Politische Wirtschaftslehre und Vergleichende Politikfeldanalyse
Titel	Is it commodification, de-commodification, familialism or de-familialization? Parental leave in Sweden and Finland. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kommodifizierung, De-Kommodifizierung, Familialismus oder Entfamilialisierung? Elternurlaub in Schweden und Finnland.
Quelle	Tübingen (2006), 34 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	WIP Working Paper. 31
Beigaben	Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1614-5925
Schlagwörter	Elternzeit; Familienpolitik; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Finnland; Schweden
Abstract	"The aim of this paper is to discuss four central concepts of welfare state policy, (commodification, de-commodification, familiarlization, de-familiarlization) in the context of parental leave policies in two social democratic welfare states, Sweden and Finland. One could claim that the pa-rental leave in these countries is including all of the four elements, but could mostly be characterized by commodification, de-commodification and de-familiarlization of the mothers. Sweden with its more generous parental leave (both when it comes to the amount of the days and the compensation) is being more de-commodifying and de-familiarlizing than Finland. Despite the critique towards these Esping-Andersen's concepts, they can be said to be more clarifying than confusing when discussing parental leave in Sweden and Finland, while the dimensions of the parental leave in these two countries seem to be complex and cannot be captured with only one concept." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2