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Conclusion:
- From crisis corporatism to reshaping European labour markets in defence of vulnerable workers

@minnavangerven.bsky.social, Marta Kahancová, Anil Duman, and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

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Transfer SI is out!. Together the papers critically analyse Crisis corporatism and institutionalised power relations and aims to shed understanding of the COVID-19 measures and how they reshaped (or not) European labour markets to defend vulnerable workers. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TRS/curr...

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- Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database

Garima Singh, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social and @minnavangerven.bsky.social

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- Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic

@jstrigen.bsky.social @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @minnavangerven.bsky.social Zamzam Elmi, and Aino Salmi

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Excellent “debut”!

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study aims to reveal the heterogeneity of single parents by focusing on the variation in poverty risks across countries and across pathways into single parenthood. It also adjudicates...

Today is a very special day for me 🎉 my first ever solo-author paper is out in Journal of Marriage and Family (this was my dream journal during my PhD and I am beyond excited to have this paper published there). Go check it out, it's open access.

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Last of my Kind, by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.

Don’t forget to download and read this excellent work: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

It was a great pleasure to discuss and examine @katriaaltonen.bsky.social ’s excellent dissertation “Austerity, health payments and economic well-being” at the University of Turku. Supervisors: @janierola.net and @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social

Congratulations, Katri!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database

New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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I don’t think the #smurfs have a particularly good track record on gender equality, but hey: if they can try it, so can we all!

#smurfetteprincie

En route to Brussels, to attend the FutuRes final conference tomorrow . I will bring a discussion based on @reusilience.bsky.social research.

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How symbolic, that upon submission of our multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to R / CRAN, the automated checks trip over Evelyn Kitagawa’s name, while the two men are just fine.

More soon (hopefully), with @thaning.bsky.social

🚨Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition working paper out!

Extending KBO decomposition for more than two groups by relating group prevalence and estimated coefficients to the sample average - as well as other juicy meth discussions 😎

Joint work together with @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

That is a very kind thing to say, thank you!

mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:

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"Fragmentation of social policies remain a key explanation of gender inequality".

Mara Yerkes in her keynote at "Breaking silos, building futures.
Policy innovations for integrated family and child support"

@odiseehogeschool.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social

"To a child seeking help, labels on the doors mean nothing. To them, it matters how the health/social workers are as a person."

Maria Kaisa Aula (Welfare area of Central Finland) on the importance of trust in welfare provision.

@cofaceeu.bsky.social @odiseehogeschool.bsky.social

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In the conclusion, we critically reflect on our own role in taking on this commissioned work, the importance that policy makers involve academics already at the design stage of the tender/commissioned work, and the importance of methodological pluralism.

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Blindspot 5: The various forms of publication bias.

Countries known for extensive provision of ECEC were overrepresented. This means that the evidence base for the revision of the Barcelona targets might be the weakest for those countries that might be furthest away from achieving them.

Blindspot 4: The focus on individual-level rather than macro-level outcomes.

Reform studies focus on individual-level outcomes, which facilitates causal inference but overlooks higher-order outcomes and thus the relationship between ECEC and important societal developments.

Blindspot 3: The focus on short-term outcomes.

Many studies in the ECEC reform database examined the immediate and short-term effects of policy changes. Only a few reform studies included in the database have examined how long it takes for implemented policy reforms to have an effect.

Blindspot 2: The limited focus on reducing inequality in the use and benefits of ECEC.

Yet, reform studies are silent on the degree of cross-country inequality in ECEC use. Consequently, which aspects of ECEC policy lead to an increase or decrease in inequality in ECEC use remains unknown.

Blindspot 1: The context-specific nature of reform studies.

Focusing on excluding ‘confounding’, reform studies generally focus on a single country, and are less able to explain how to increase effectiveness depends on its interplay with other institutional and structural conditions.

Our commissioned focus was very much on reform studies. The value of such studies to isolate the causal effect is indisputable, but a tradeoff is that these reforms studies tend to be empirically narrow.

We kept wondering: “What are we missing?”.

So, we reflected on five blindspots:

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) - Publications Office of the EU The European Pillar Action Plan highlighted the importance of childcare as an important element to increase women’s employment rates. Childcare is also a headline target of the European Pillar of Soci...

At breakneck speed, with a very short deadline, we delivered the work, and a report (available here: data.europa.eu/doi/10.2838/...)

The report has interesting findings, we think, and demonstrated again how important the accessibility, affordability and quality of childcare policies are.

It started out as a report commissioned report by DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (@ec.europa.eu). We created a database of ECEC reform studies, in preparation of the revised Barcelona Targets (on childcare).

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This new publication of ours, with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social is a fun one, I think.

"Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy”
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