Kvist Elin
Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Eur J Ageing. 2012 Mar 27;9(2):111-117. doi: 10.1007/s10433-012-0225-9. eCollection 2012 Jun.
In many European countries different types of policy reforms intending to encourage growth in the domestic service sector have been introduced. The methods and reforms differ but mainly the reforms intend to stimulate growth of a 'new' legal labour market sector within private households. This potential growth sector in combination with insufficient or declining welfare states, inclining female labour market participation and ageing populations could be viewed as explanatory factors to the increased demand for domestic services. A growing amount of those performing paid domestic work in European homes are migrant women with or without papers. The aim of this article is to create a model that enables comparisons of these reforms, with a special focus on changing social organizations of care for elders, children and other dependent persons. Included in the analysis are European countries that have introduced wide domestic service policy reforms as measurement to encourage growth in the domestic service sector, i.e. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden.
在许多欧洲国家，已经出台了不同类型旨在鼓励家庭服务部门增长的政策改革措施。这些方法和改革各有不同，但主要目的是刺激私人家庭内部一个“新的”合法劳动力市场部门的增长。这个潜在的增长部门，再加上福利国家的不足或衰退、女性劳动力市场参与度的上升以及人口老龄化，可被视为家庭服务需求增加的解释性因素。在欧洲家庭中从事有偿家务工作的人中，越来越多的是有证件或无证件的移民妇女。本文的目的是创建一个能够对这些改革进行比较的模型，特别关注对老年人、儿童和其他受抚养人的照料社会组织的变化。纳入分析的欧洲国家包括那些已经推行广泛的家庭服务政策改革以作为鼓励家庭服务部门增长措施的国家，即奥地利、比利时、丹麦、芬兰、法国、德国和瑞典。
