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Swedish family policy

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Szelewa D.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

2004

issue 7

53-74

The so called 'collapse' of Swedish welfare state is often perceived in Poland in the light of 'family decline' that is expected to have happened in the Nordic countries. Additionally, according to some groups of authors, since (Western, and maybe especially Swedish) 'atomization, hedonism and selfishness' promotes a certain style of life making people put away their decision about having a child, which together leads to dramatic decrease in birthrates. In the writings of conservative authors demographic decline presents very basic threat for the nation's existence. This article is aimed at clarifying the facts concerning Swedish family policy, as well as at showing successful institutional solutions, which could be applied in Poland because their usefulness in Polish conditions. Theoretical background including 'gendering welfare state' approach is here presented mostly due to its absence in the writings of Polish authors. Gender equality point of view is accompanied by showing, how much freedom of choice Swedish model of family policy provides. In order to have a wider view of this topic, the main characteristics of Swedish state's policy towards families are presented together with the 'retrenchment' period of the 1990s, analyzed with the intention to shed some different light on the fact, whether the retrenchment is really taking place or not.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (Zasilki dla osób bezrobotnych w Europie Srodkowo-Wschodniej. Analiza konfiguracyjna)

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Polakowski M., Szelewa D.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

2008

vol. 11

109-133

This article investigates trends in an unemployment compensation in eight countries, which joined the EU in 2004 in the period 1989-2004. By focusing on eligibility criteria, generosity and duration of benefits on the one hand and obligations of unemployed on the other, the paper identifies different policy mixes. Based on the ideal-type fuzzy set approach, the article finds a great variety of unemployment compensation models. There is no consolidation of this policy across the region, therefore it is hard to cluster the countries. The most stable cases were the ones which already provided the compensation before the transition started. Changes in the ideal types of the unemployment compensation were rather incremental than revolutionary. The direction of these changes can be observed by identifying new dominating combinations of policies conversing the existing institutional solutions.

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Swedish family policy

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (Zasilki dla osób bezrobotnych w Europie Srodkowo-Wschodniej. Analiza konfiguracyjna)