Janneke Plantenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 267697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janneke Plantenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janneke |
| FAMILY NAME | Plantenga |
| SIGNATURE | PLANTENGA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
No manner of hurt was found upon him'. The role of religiousness in the mental health effect of job insecurity
This study examines how religiousness moderates the mental health effect of job insecurity, a prevalent stressor in modern societies. We use panel data from a representative, large sample of Dutch employees from 2008 to 2018. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the data, we control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Our main results indicate that job insecurity negatively affects men's but not women's mental health. Religious employee…
“Who’ll take the chair?” Maternal employment effects of a Polish (pre)school reform
This study examines the impact of preschool availability on the employment of mothers of preschool-aged children. We exploit a transitional phase of a 2009 Polish education reform that simultaneously lowered the primary school age from 7 to 6 and provided a statutory right to preschool to 5-year-olds. As a significant share of 6-year-old children moved into primary schools a year earlier, their preschool seats effectively became available for you…
Double lives
This chapter explores the relationships between labour market participation, citizenship and gender. It focuses on the period up to the Second World War and looks at how the ‘harmony of life and human nature’ was institutionalized. Full citizenship is not equal to labour market participation, but implies participating in both paid and unpaid labour. The chapter provides an overview of how in the post-war period the gendered division of labour and…
Do children benefit from universal early childhood education and care? A meta-analysis of evidence from natural experiments
Out-of-school childcare
While a large number of studies focus on childcare facilities for preschool children, attention for out-of-school facilities is limited. The implicit assumption seems to be that facilities to combine work and care activities are less relevant once children reach the schoolgoing age. Yet, in most countries school hours are only part-time and not compatible with a full-time working week. This study adds to the literature by providing the first over…
Labour market effects of parental leave in Europe
We investigate the aggregate-level effects of parental leave legislation on various labour market outcomes of women in 16 European countries for the period between 1970 and 2010. The paper updates and extends previous findings in the literature. The results show increases in participation rates that diminish with length and generosity of leave schemes. While pure participation numbers may not increase dramatically, there is strong evidence of inc…
Gender and the European Labour Market
The paper investigates the ways in which different countries have addressed the question of making market care affordable to families while keeping public costs under control. We first analyse the conditions regulating the care market and its division between regular and irregular work. The latter does not necessarily coincide with immigrant work. While in some countries the two figures coincide, this is not the case in others: we start from the …
Leisure smoothing
Traditionally, the success of child care policies has been studied in terms of their effects on labour force participation and fertility. We take a slightly different perspective by looking at the impact of child care policies on time allocated to leisure. If there is little time left for leisure after parenting tasks, this would indicate that parents have difficulty combining labour and care. Child care policies may potentially smooth leisure ov…
A matter of culture and cost? A comparison of the employment decisions made by mothers with a lower, intermediate and higher level of education in the Netherlands
This article is focused on financial-economic and socio-cultural factors in explaining differences in labour participation and working hours of Dutch mothers with diverging educational levels. The data used are taken from a survey held among approximately 1700 women in the Netherlands from two-parent households with children up to 12 years old. The models for participation and working hours are simultaneously estimated for different levels of edu…
The Relation Between Market Forces and Employee Motivation
The Dutch childcare sector has undergone a transition from a welfare sector into a market sector. The final step in this transition process was taken with the introduction of a new Dutch Childcare Act on 1 January 2005. In discussions about the introduction of market forces, the possible effects on employees are usually not taken into consideration. This is remarkable given that it is generally assumed that employee motivation in the public secto…
Making Transitions Pay
Introducing individual savings accounts into the system of social security may be an innovative way to reorganise European social security systems. This article examines the merits and drawbacks of this modernisation strategy using the Transitional Labour Market approach as a frame of reference. On the basis of normative criteria derived from this approach, we perform an evaluation of the Dutch life-course scheme ('Levensloopregeling'). This sche…
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate
The expressions ‘care work’, ‘care services’ and ‘care regimes’ have recently entered the vocabulary of the socioeconomic literature located at the intersection of analysis of the welfare state, studies on social policy, and feminist research (Lewis, 2001; Anttonnen et al., 2003; Folbre, 2008). In a broad sense, ‘care’ is the activity of looking after people unable to take care of themselves. It comprises health care, teaching and special needs e…
The Life Course and the System of Social Security
The life course has become an important frame of reference in the debate about modernising social security. There is a general feeling that the current structure of social security is not adequately adapted to the altered life courses of men and women, nor is the current design adequate given the changing economic circumstances. This article describes the challenges the life-course perspective poses with regard to the system of social security an…
Life Courses, Diversity and the Reform of the Unemployment Insurance Act
The understanding of diversity in life courses is an important stimulus for redesigning and modernising social security systems. A number of measures, such as leave arrangements, have been introduced in the past. These measures allow employees to make combinations and transitions and enable them to deal with the risks associated with these transitions, for example, a reduction in income or a loss of social security entitlements. However, there ha…
Comparing Care Regimes in Europe
Throughout Europe, the family is still an important provider of care, but welfare state policies of individual countries may support and/or supplement the family in different ways, generating different \nsocial and economic outcomes. This article compares and categorizes care strategies for children and elderly persons in different member states of the European Union, while also taking into account the \nvaried modalities for providing care, like…
Combining work and care in the polder model
Working time is an important ingredient in the Dutch `polder model'. In particular, part-time employment has proven to be an important element on the road towards full employment. Part-time employment is also an important element in the so-called `combination model', a model that has been adopted by the Dutch government as the main guideline for policies in the field of labour and care. The point of departure of the combination model is a balance…
Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union
Parental Leave and Equal Opportunities
In June 1996, the EU directive on parental leave came into force. A major consideration in the introduction of this directive was its advantages for the reconciliation of work and family life. However, there is little systematic knowledge about the practical significance of parental leave arrangements in the European Union for equal opportunities policy. Given this situation, the main focus of this article is on empirical issues such as the numbe…
Towards an Equal Division of Paid and Unpaid Work
Both the Netherlands and other European countries are involved in the transition from a breadwinner society towards a more individual-oriented society. What is unique in the Dutch case is the strong emphasis on the equal sharing of time, between paid and unpaid work as well as between women and men. Despite the preferences among citizens for a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, in practice it appears that general participation in paid la…
For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands
Journal Article For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands Get access JANNEKE PLANTENGA JANNEKE PLANTENGA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 57–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.1.57 Published: 01 March 1996
Comparing Care Regimes in Europe
Throughout Europe, the family is still an important provider of care, but welfare state policies of individual countries may support and/or supplement the family in different ways, generating different \nsocial and economic outcomes. This article compares and categorizes care strategies for children and elderly persons in different member states of the European Union, while also taking into account the \nvaried modalities for providing care, like…
Parental Leave and Equal Opportunities
In June 1996, the EU directive on parental leave came into force. A major consideration in the introduction of this directive was its advantages for the reconciliation of work and family life. However, there is little systematic knowledge about the practical significance of parental leave arrangements in the European Union for equal opportunities policy. Given this situation, the main focus of this article is on empirical issues such as the numbe…
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
Combining work and care in the polder model
Working time is an important ingredient in the Dutch `polder model'. In particular, part-time employment has proven to be an important element on the road towards full employment. Part-time employment is also an important element in the so-called `combination model', a model that has been adopted by the Dutch government as the main guideline for policies in the field of labour and care. The point of departure of the combination model is a balance…
Towards an Equal Division of Paid and Unpaid Work
Both the Netherlands and other European countries are involved in the transition from a breadwinner society towards a more individual-oriented society. What is unique in the Dutch case is the strong emphasis on the equal sharing of time, between paid and unpaid work as well as between women and men. Despite the preferences among citizens for a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, in practice it appears that general participation in paid la…
For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands
Journal Article For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands Get access JANNEKE PLANTENGA JANNEKE PLANTENGA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 57–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.1.57 Published: 01 March 1996
A matter of culture and cost? A comparison of the employment decisions made by mothers with a lower, intermediate and higher level of education in the Netherlands
This article is focused on financial-economic and socio-cultural factors in explaining differences in labour participation and working hours of Dutch mothers with diverging educational levels. The data used are taken from a survey held among approximately 1700 women in the Netherlands from two-parent households with children up to 12 years old. The models for participation and working hours are simultaneously estimated for different levels of edu…
Out-of-school childcare
While a large number of studies focus on childcare facilities for preschool children, attention for out-of-school facilities is limited. The implicit assumption seems to be that facilities to combine work and care activities are less relevant once children reach the schoolgoing age. Yet, in most countries school hours are only part-time and not compatible with a full-time working week. This study adds to the literature by providing the first over…
Life Courses, Diversity and the Reform of the Unemployment Insurance Act
The understanding of diversity in life courses is an important stimulus for redesigning and modernising social security systems. A number of measures, such as leave arrangements, have been introduced in the past. These measures allow employees to make combinations and transitions and enable them to deal with the risks associated with these transitions, for example, a reduction in income or a loss of social security entitlements. However, there ha…
No manner of hurt was found upon him'. The role of religiousness in the mental health effect of job insecurity
This study examines how religiousness moderates the mental health effect of job insecurity, a prevalent stressor in modern societies. We use panel data from a representative, large sample of Dutch employees from 2008 to 2018. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the data, we control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Our main results indicate that job insecurity negatively affects men's but not women's mental health. Religious employee…
Leisure smoothing
Traditionally, the success of child care policies has been studied in terms of their effects on labour force participation and fertility. We take a slightly different perspective by looking at the impact of child care policies on time allocated to leisure. If there is little time left for leisure after parenting tasks, this would indicate that parents have difficulty combining labour and care. Child care policies may potentially smooth leisure ov…
Making Transitions Pay
Introducing individual savings accounts into the system of social security may be an innovative way to reorganise European social security systems. This article examines the merits and drawbacks of this modernisation strategy using the Transitional Labour Market approach as a frame of reference. On the basis of normative criteria derived from this approach, we perform an evaluation of the Dutch life-course scheme ('Levensloopregeling'). This sche…
The Life Course and the System of Social Security
The life course has become an important frame of reference in the debate about modernising social security. There is a general feeling that the current structure of social security is not adequately adapted to the altered life courses of men and women, nor is the current design adequate given the changing economic circumstances. This article describes the challenges the life-course perspective poses with regard to the system of social security an…
For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands
Journal Article For Women Only? The Rise of Part-time Work in the Netherlands Get access JANNEKE PLANTENGA JANNEKE PLANTENGA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 57–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.1.57 Published: 01 March 1996
Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union
Parental Leave and Equal Opportunities
In June 1996, the EU directive on parental leave came into force. A major consideration in the introduction of this directive was its advantages for the reconciliation of work and family life. However, there is little systematic knowledge about the practical significance of parental leave arrangements in the European Union for equal opportunities policy. Given this situation, the main focus of this article is on empirical issues such as the numbe…
Towards an Equal Division of Paid and Unpaid Work
Both the Netherlands and other European countries are involved in the transition from a breadwinner society towards a more individual-oriented society. What is unique in the Dutch case is the strong emphasis on the equal sharing of time, between paid and unpaid work as well as between women and men. Despite the preferences among citizens for a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, in practice it appears that general participation in paid la…
Combining work and care in the polder model
Working time is an important ingredient in the Dutch `polder model'. In particular, part-time employment has proven to be an important element on the road towards full employment. Part-time employment is also an important element in the so-called `combination model', a model that has been adopted by the Dutch government as the main guideline for policies in the field of labour and care. The point of departure of the combination model is a balance…
Comparing Care Regimes in Europe
Throughout Europe, the family is still an important provider of care, but welfare state policies of individual countries may support and/or supplement the family in different ways, generating different \nsocial and economic outcomes. This article compares and categorizes care strategies for children and elderly persons in different member states of the European Union, while also taking into account the \nvaried modalities for providing care, like…
The Life Course and the System of Social Security
The life course has become an important frame of reference in the debate about modernising social security. There is a general feeling that the current structure of social security is not adequately adapted to the altered life courses of men and women, nor is the current design adequate given the changing economic circumstances. This article describes the challenges the life-course perspective poses with regard to the system of social security an…
Life Courses, Diversity and the Reform of the Unemployment Insurance Act
The understanding of diversity in life courses is an important stimulus for redesigning and modernising social security systems. A number of measures, such as leave arrangements, have been introduced in the past. These measures allow employees to make combinations and transitions and enable them to deal with the risks associated with these transitions, for example, a reduction in income or a loss of social security entitlements. However, there ha…
Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate
The expressions ‘care work’, ‘care services’ and ‘care regimes’ have recently entered the vocabulary of the socioeconomic literature located at the intersection of analysis of the welfare state, studies on social policy, and feminist research (Lewis, 2001; Anttonnen et al., 2003; Folbre, 2008). In a broad sense, ‘care’ is the activity of looking after people unable to take care of themselves. It comprises health care, teaching and special needs e…
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
The Relation Between Market Forces and Employee Motivation
The Dutch childcare sector has undergone a transition from a welfare sector into a market sector. The final step in this transition process was taken with the introduction of a new Dutch Childcare Act on 1 January 2005. In discussions about the introduction of market forces, the possible effects on employees are usually not taken into consideration. This is remarkable given that it is generally assumed that employee motivation in the public secto…
Making Transitions Pay
Introducing individual savings accounts into the system of social security may be an innovative way to reorganise European social security systems. This article examines the merits and drawbacks of this modernisation strategy using the Transitional Labour Market approach as a frame of reference. On the basis of normative criteria derived from this approach, we perform an evaluation of the Dutch life-course scheme ('Levensloopregeling'). This sche…
A matter of culture and cost? A comparison of the employment decisions made by mothers with a lower, intermediate and higher level of education in the Netherlands
This article is focused on financial-economic and socio-cultural factors in explaining differences in labour participation and working hours of Dutch mothers with diverging educational levels. The data used are taken from a survey held among approximately 1700 women in the Netherlands from two-parent households with children up to 12 years old. The models for participation and working hours are simultaneously estimated for different levels of edu…
Labour market effects of parental leave in Europe
We investigate the aggregate-level effects of parental leave legislation on various labour market outcomes of women in 16 European countries for the period between 1970 and 2010. The paper updates and extends previous findings in the literature. The results show increases in participation rates that diminish with length and generosity of leave schemes. While pure participation numbers may not increase dramatically, there is strong evidence of inc…
Gender and the European Labour Market
The paper investigates the ways in which different countries have addressed the question of making market care affordable to families while keeping public costs under control. We first analyse the conditions regulating the care market and its division between regular and irregular work. The latter does not necessarily coincide with immigrant work. While in some countries the two figures coincide, this is not the case in others: we start from the …
Leisure smoothing
Traditionally, the success of child care policies has been studied in terms of their effects on labour force participation and fertility. We take a slightly different perspective by looking at the impact of child care policies on time allocated to leisure. If there is little time left for leisure after parenting tasks, this would indicate that parents have difficulty combining labour and care. Child care policies may potentially smooth leisure ov…
Out-of-school childcare
While a large number of studies focus on childcare facilities for preschool children, attention for out-of-school facilities is limited. The implicit assumption seems to be that facilities to combine work and care activities are less relevant once children reach the schoolgoing age. Yet, in most countries school hours are only part-time and not compatible with a full-time working week. This study adds to the literature by providing the first over…
Do children benefit from universal early childhood education and care? A meta-analysis of evidence from natural experiments
Double lives
This chapter explores the relationships between labour market participation, citizenship and gender. It focuses on the period up to the Second World War and looks at how the ‘harmony of life and human nature’ was institutionalized. Full citizenship is not equal to labour market participation, but implies participating in both paid and unpaid labour. The chapter provides an overview of how in the post-war period the gendered division of labour and…
“Who’ll take the chair?” Maternal employment effects of a Polish (pre)school reform
This study examines the impact of preschool availability on the employment of mothers of preschool-aged children. We exploit a transitional phase of a 2009 Polish education reform that simultaneously lowered the primary school age from 7 to 6 and provided a statutory right to preschool to 5-year-olds. As a significant share of 6-year-old children moved into primary schools a year earlier, their preschool seats effectively became available for you…
No manner of hurt was found upon him'. The role of religiousness in the mental health effect of job insecurity
This study examines how religiousness moderates the mental health effect of job insecurity, a prevalent stressor in modern societies. We use panel data from a representative, large sample of Dutch employees from 2008 to 2018. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the data, we control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Our main results indicate that job insecurity negatively affects men's but not women's mental health. Religious employee…
Economics (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Work (physics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)