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Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe 在福利国家周围筑墙，还是在国家周围筑墙？欧洲对移民福利包容性和移民政策开放性的偏好

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Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241235802

Alexandre Afonso, Samir Mustafa Negash

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A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality 走得太远：雇主对工作中附加条件的看法

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241232817

Katy Jones, Calum Carson

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Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status 福利欧洲怀疑论与社会经济地位

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241231893

Gianna M Eick

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Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: Policy and measurement 解读就业、社会转移和收入贫困之间的关系：政策与衡量

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241232272

András Gábos, Barbara Binder, Réka Branyiczki, István György Tóth

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Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes? 欧洲福利国家边缘的转变：粮食援助对补充不足的最低收入有多重要？

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241231889

Karen Hermans, Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal

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Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels? 纪律福利和刑事司法中的惩罚性转向：平行趋势还是沟通工具？

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241231885

Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger

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Is part-time employment a temporary ‘stepping stone’ or a lasting ‘mommy track’? Legislation and mothers’ transition to full-time employment in Germany 非全日制工作是临时的 "垫脚石 "还是持久的 "妈妈轨道"？德国立法与母亲向全职工作的过渡

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/09589287231224607

Uta Brehm, Nadja Milewski

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Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse 危机时期的福利沙文主义：激进右翼政治言论的影响

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/09589287231224601

Rosan Haenraets, Femke Roosma

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Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks: How they shape work and care norms 日托的可用性和对性别经济风险的认识：它们如何形成工作和护理规范

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.1177/09589287231219215

Silke Büchau, Marie-Fleur Philipp, Pia S. Schober, C. K. Spiess

{"title":"Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks: How they shape work and care norms","authors":"Silke Büchau, Marie-Fleur Philipp, Pia S. Schober, C. K. Spiess","doi":"10.1177/09589287231219215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231219215","url":null,"abstract":"Family policies not only provide money, time and infrastructure to families, but also convey normative assumptions about what is considered desirable or acceptable in paid work and family care. This study conceptualises and empirically investigates how priming respondents with brief media report-like information on existing day care policy entitlements and economic consequences of maternal employment interruptions may change personal normative judgements about parental work–care arrangements. Furthermore, we analyse whether these effects differ between groups of respondents assumed to vary in their degree of affectedness by the information as well as previous knowledge. The theoretical framework builds on the concept of normative policy feedback effects combined with social norm theory and human cognition theories. The study is based on a fully randomized survey experiment combined with a vignette experiment in Wave 12 of the German Family Panel (pairfam). It applies linear and ordinal logistic regressions with cluster-robust standard errors to a sample of 5,783 respondents. Our results suggest that priming respondents with information on day care policy and long-term economic risks of maternal employment interruptions increases acceptance of intensive day care use across the full sample and especially for mothers with children below school entry age. It further increases support for longer maternal hours spent in paid work among childless women and mothers with school-aged children. Norms regarding paternal working hours are largely unaffected by the information given in this survey experiment.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"28 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138589254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does the provision of childcare reduce motherhood penalties in job-related training participation? Longitudinal evidence from Germany 提供托儿服务是否会减少参加与工作相关培训的母亲惩罚？来自德国的纵向证据

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1177/09589287231217199

Gundula Zoch

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