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期刊簡介

Social Policy & Administration

Social Policy & Administration（《社會政策與管理》）作為社會政策領域歷史最為悠久的期刊，始終秉持追求學術(shù)卓越的優(yōu)良傳統(tǒng)，積極推動對當下熱點及富有爭議的議題的深入探討，激發(fā)學界的思想碰撞與交流。該刊每一期的內(nèi)容編排獨具匠心，通常會圍繞一個核心主題精心組織多篇高質(zhì)量論文，為讀者呈現(xiàn)全面且深入的學術(shù)分析。與此同時，該刊的視野也極為廣闊，具有鮮明的國際化特征，廣泛吸引了全球各地學者的踴躍投稿。這些來自不同地區(qū)的優(yōu)質(zhì)稿件，不僅聚焦于歐洲的社會政策領域，還涵蓋了美國、加拿大、澳大利亞以及亞太地區(qū)的社會政策研究，為讀者呈現(xiàn)豐富多元的學術(shù)視角和研究成果。

Social Policy & Administration 每年發(fā)布7期，最新一期（Volume 59, Issue 3, May 2025）共計12篇文章，詳情如下。

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本期目錄

Social Policy & Administration

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原文摘要

Social Policy & Administration

Crowded-out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany

Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Sch?per, C. Katharina Spiess

Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the last two decades has been accompanied by similar or opposite trends in informal childcare usage. It argues that accounting for both formal and informal childcare can offer a more accurate assessment of defamilisation effects of family policies. Drawing on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel the analysis identifies long-run developments of childcare arrangements for children aged 1–10 between 1997 and 2020, offering for the first time a comprehensive picture of how families with children of different ages mix informal care and service provision. Results show that on average the expansion of formal childcare was not associated with an equal reduction in informal childcare, lending little support to the crowding-out hypothesis. Further analyses distinguishing between population groups with different propensity to use formal childcare reveal, unexpectedly, remarkable similarities in the use of informal care throughout the period examined. The only exception are families with a migrant background, who tend to use informal childcare less than their counterparts. The general trend is, however, one whereby informal and formal care are increasingly combined.

Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention

Sara Marcora, Verena Seibel, Marleen Damman, Marcel Lubbers

Old-age state pension is central to European welfare states. Despite the growing number of migrants in Europe, little is known about their attitudes towards state pension. Pension systems are designed for a ‘sedentary’ population, as they require many years of contribution or residency in the country. This often affects first-generation migrants, who arrive in the residence country only at a later point in their lives. In this paper, we draw on self-interest theory, which is commonly used to explain individuals' support towards welfare institutions and theorize on how the migration experience adds to the standard model of self-interest in relation to support for government spending on old-age state pensions. Hence, we move beyond traditional indicators of self-interest such as education and employment status and we test hypotheses on how migrant-specific characteristics like length of stay and settlement intention in the residence country are related to migrants' support for government spending on old-age state pensions. We use data from the Migrants' Welfare State Attitudes (MIFARE) survey (2016), the first cross-national survey that focuses on migrants' attitudes towards the welfare state that was collected in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands among nine different migrant groups from within and outside the EU. We find that migrants living in the country for over 5?years and those with longer settlement intentions have a higher support for government spending on pensions. We conclude that it is crucial to take migrants' unique migration experiences into account when assessing their attitudes towards state pension.

Job training in polarizing job markets: A longitudinal analysis using administrative microdata

Nicolas Didier

Developed nations have experienced a longstanding trend of reshaping the labour market's occupational structure. This trend, named job market polarization, describes how middle-level jobs have decreased their relative share of the labour market in favour of high- and low-complexity jobs. The literature has pointed to technological change as the main factor in setting this configuration, which accompanied the transition to a knowledge economy as a source of competitive advantages. Still, the narratives of technological change are anchored to specific technologies and times that do not fit the emerging challenges of the fourth industrial revolution and the increasing relevance of the digital economy. In this paper, I explore how job polarization dynamics have interacted with active labour market policies' effectiveness by focusing on job training skill premiums. I use nationally representative data to evaluate cross-sectionally and longitudinally the relationship between job training access, job polarization, and wages. The results show that polarization poses a wage penalty while it increases the relative value of training skill premium. I discuss how the setting of a polarized market could be considered for future skill-based interventions concerning digital technologies.

The impact of bureaucracy and managerialism on relationship-based practise: A mixed methods study of frontline social work in Northern Ireland

Katheryn Margaret Pascoe

Combining quantitative data from a national survey (n?=?252) with qualitative interviews with frontline social workers (n?=?16), this manuscript examines the ways in which bureaucracy and managerialism has impacted social work in Northern Ireland, with specific attention to relationship-based practise. Although policy documents emphasise the importance of relationship-based practise, quantitative and qualitative data demonstrate social workers are spending increasingly more time on administrative tasks to the detriment of direct work with service users. A whole institutional response is necessary to develop conditions conducive to placing relationships at the heart of practise, and promotion in practise guidelines and policy documents alone is insufficient.

Motherhood in academia: A novel dataset of UK academic women with an application to maternity leave uptake

Riccardo Di Leo, Mariaelisa Epifanio, Thomas J. Scotto, Vera E. Troeger

Motherhood is widely believed to be an important factor slowing down the career progression of women. We present a novel database that combines an original survey of women and mothers working in the UK Higher Education sector with data on the occupational maternity benefits offered by academic employers. This allows users to track, at the individual level, child-bearing experiences and employment histories simultaneously. We describe several aspects of mothers' experiences in academia and how those evolve over the years. We also conduct an empirical analysis of the determinants of maternity leave uptake, showing that women's employment status and family arrangements significantly impact the types of maternity leave – paid or unpaid – taken.

Exploring the practical relevance of food aid rationales in Belgium: Lessons from applying in-kind transfer valuation methods

Karen Hermans, Sarah Marchal

Charitable food aid is gaining new relevance in mature welfare states: the number of beneficiaries increases while the subsidization by and collaboration with the state intensifies. We distinguish three rationales to this further institutionalization: poverty mitigation, and ecological and paternalistic reasonings. In this explorative study we assess the validity of these rationales in the actual set-up of food aid in Belgium. Specifically, we apply three different in-kind transfer valuation methods (production cost, market and recipient value) to robustly estimate the value of food aid. This mixed-methods study builds on purpose-collected field work data on distributed food aid packages, Household Budget Survey data on common consumption patterns, and a thorough document analysis into food aid spending data. The estimated value of food aid strongly depends on the valuation method: the annual total value of food aid in Belgium ranges from 57 to 148 million euros. Importantly, we observe a discrepancy between prevalent rationales and the actual set-up of food aid. In contrast to the ecological reasoning of fighting food waste, large part of the total value stems from new food purchases, which involve paternalistic choices. Yet, the composition of food aid packages only partly complies with nutritional recommendations. Moreover, they do not fully meet recipients' preferences and needs, which generates a welfare loss. Food aid may nonetheless seem efficient from a policy perspective: a ‘charity multiplier effect’ appears to translate the government production cost in a higher market value. Still, its unpredictable and mismatched nature likely reduces its poverty mitigating effect.

The intergenerational transmission of financial disadvantage across Europe

Caroline Dewilde

Growing income and wealth inequality have rekindled interest in questions of social mobility versus intergenerational persistence. Specifically at the low-end of the inequality distribution, rising poverty risks amongst working-age households have raised concerns regarding later-life consequences of childhood poverty. This paper investigates cross-country and -cohort variations in the intergenerational transmission of financial disadvantage, by pooling cross-sections from EU-SILC (2005-2011-2019) for 31 European countries. Similar to previous research, adolescent financial disadvantage contributes significantly to income poverty risks in adulthood. In only about half of European countries, such impacts are explained by close relationships between parental family structure and adolescent financial disadvantage, or mediated by labour market-related status attainment from parents to children. Next, compared with older cohorts, for younger respondents coming of age in the era of enhanced globalization and dualization since the 1990s, and during the post-financial crisis and austerity years, a trend towards enhanced stratification of current poverty with regard to adolescent financial disadvantage emerges. Multilevel analyses based on these younger cohorts indicate that more generous active (outsider spending) and passive (social exclusion spending) welfare benefits aimed at compensating poorer households for the consequences of labour market and welfare state dualization significantly mitigate current income poverty of those who experienced financial disadvantage in adolescence. Welfare reforms implying reductions in social spending disproportionally affecting ‘outsider’-households (intended or unintended) may therefore be costly in the long run, as the intergenerational transmission of financial disadvantage might intensify.

State childcare provision in China: Subnational variations and localized policy contexts across 31 mainland provinces

Wenting Liu, Haijing Dai

The social organization of childcare is of special relevance to gender equality and family wellbeing. Childcare provision in China is often recognized as a case of familism, which highly relies on family care with limited state support. However, this all-encompassing view may mask the local discrepancy generated by a decentralized social welfare system, especially when emerging initiatives have been enacted due to the government's concern about fertility. This article analyses the variation of childcare policies across 31 China mainland provinces, from the perspective of welfare regime theory. Using hierarchical cluster analysis, six policy patterns with varying configurations of familizing and defamilizing support are identified: (1) dual-earner support, (2) moderate dual-earner support, (3) moderate support, (4) general family support, (5) modified family support, and (6) a geo-special case. We further explore the socioeconomic contexts of various policy profiles, with a particular focus on fertility and female employment. Findings suggest that, although with a nationally shared welfare ideology, subnational governments could exploit divergent strategies to support childcare in response to localized socioeconomic conditions. This research also provides insights into how childcare responsibilities are distributed between state and family in a non-western country.

Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare-related family policies in China

Xin Fan, Kinglun Ngok

Childcare has been considered a ‘new’ social risk and various childcare regimes have been developed worldwide to tackle this social problem. While welfare attitude studies have paid attention to public attitudes toward childcare services, little is known about public attitudes toward other childcare-related family policies (i.e., leave and allowance). Using novel and unique survey data on welfare attitudes from China, this article investigates how socioeconomic factors matter to general as well as prioritised support for three types of childcare-related family policies and to policy regimes in China where low fertility crisis is emerging. The survey data suggests the biggest gap between general and prioritised support is found in allowance policy and the smallest in service policy. Regression models suggest that the biggest gap between general and prioritised support for allowance policy can be explained by the reversed and negative effects of education and gender. We further develop a typology of public support for childcare regimes using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and find four types: implicit and explicit familialism, de-familialism, and ambiguous familialism. The results of multinomial logistic regression on public support for childcare regimes confirm the findings on prioritised support for different policies and suggest a bifurcation effect of age on regime preferences. We discuss the implications of the findings in the conclusion.

A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development

Lilia Yakova, Alexander Politov, Alexander Gerganov

This article looks into the Career Start Programme in Bulgaria through the prism of Sen's capability approach, and more particularly—the application of the approach to career guidance, employment programmes and youth labour market activation [Correction added on 15 August 2024, after first online publication: The full name of the programme in the previous sentence has been defined in this version.]. It analyses the programme's effects on its beneficiaries in enhancing their capability for work and capability for knowledge. Through qualitative and quantitative data analysis, we examine: (1) how the programme affects the participants' meaningful choices to aspire for and get a desired job and to develop sustainable career paths, and (2) how the programme influences the participants' capability for learning and skill acquisition. We find that, as a whole, the programme has positive influences on the larger part of its beneficiaries, as it equips them with the necessary capabilities to develop their future careers. We, however, observe certain issues with the programme calling for adjustments, so that young participants are better empowered to participate in the design of youth initiatives and formulate NEET-related and youth employment policies that will be more conducive to their career paths in the future and to their aspirations for jobs they value.

No welfare without workfare? Revisiting varieties of minimum income schemes in Europe (2008–2022)

Lloren? Soler-Buades

The social policy literature indicates a notable shift towards activation in minimum income schemes (MIS) since the 1990s, which has led to the emergence of new policy varieties. However, previous research has failed to reveal institutional changes over time and across/within varieties. This article measures and interprets varieties of minimum income across six welfare states from 2008 to 2022. It examines the evolution of varieties of MIS over time, and the extent to which changes have been driven by path dependence dynamics or by convergence towards a workfare model. Theoretically, the article builds on the regulation approach in political economy. Methodologically, it applies a Principal Component Analysis to a new dataset that consists of three OECD-standard indicators alongside two novel indicators formulated for this study. The findings illustrate that varieties of MIS have undergone both quantitative and qualitative changes, moving within and between typologies. These changes are attributed to a lack of investment in income protection, limited enabling opportunities, and the introduction of specific, incremental workfare reforms.

Work inclusion of marginalised groups in a troubled city district—How can active labour market policies improve?

Kjetil Fr?yland, Helen Bull, Lisebet Skeie Skarpaas, Gerd Berget, ?ystein Spjelkavik, June Ullevolds?ter Lystad

Active labour market policies (ALMP) have faced challenges in integrating marginalised groups into the workforce. This study explores perceptions among managers and frontline workers on enhancing work inclusion for neurodiverse citizens, marginalised youth, and individuals suffering from mental health or substance use disorders in a troubled city district. An examination of dialogue conferences and group interviews uncovers problems with current practises, attitudes, and service organisation. The proposed local solutions primarily include improved coordination of support and services, as well as enhanced competence within these services. Our results indicate that co-creation at the system, organisation, and individual levels, coupled with expanded knowledge translation, can mobilise local actors to create new or adopt existing knowledge-based strategies. Therefore, local co-creation presents a potential for developing local inclusion strategies.

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