Joris Ghysels
Biographic Data
| ID | 276491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joris Ghysels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joris |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghysels |
| SIGNATURE | GHYSELS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2435-9053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Educational inequalities in parental care time
Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare service use across 31 developed economies
Childcare services are increasingly regarded a major policy lever to combat social inequalities in early life. Yet, it was shown that inequality in the use of childcare services is the norm rather than the exception in European and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. As a result, social inequalities between disadvantaged and advantaged children are likely to be reinforced instead of being narrowed. The aim of …
Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries
Family policy is a constituent part of the traditional social policy mix that has been subject to profound changes in terms of both scope and substance following the emergence of the social investment paradigm. Therefore, the shift from cash to service spending is further explored with a specific focus on family policy (i.e. child benefits, childcare services and parental leave benefits). Based on expenditure trends, little support is found for t…
The impact of child benefits on single mother poverty
Single mothers are vulnerable to living in poverty. The question of how to safeguard the economic status of single mothers in a context of increasing dual earnership is a crucial one. In the present study we addressed this issue by investigating the impact of child benefits on the poverty risk of single mothers in 15 E uropean countries. We focused in particular on the design of child benefits and investigated whether targeting towards single mot…
Wie heeft profijt van het overheidsbeleid? - Kinderopvang in Zweden en België (Vlaanderen)
Who benefits from government investment in childcare? .The case of Sweden and Belgium (Flanders) Childcare is promoted at the national and European level as a policy instrument par excellence to simultaneously reconcile work and family duties and increase female employment rates. As a consequence, European governments increasingly deploy resources to subsidise childcare services. The main goal of this paper is to unravel who benefits from this go…
Lineage Based Differences in Grandparental Investment
Who benefits? The social distribution of subsidized childcare in Sweden and Flanders
The main goal of this article is to unravel the social distribution of childcare policies: Who benefits from government investment in public childcare? The analysis complements earlier research on the distribution of social policy outcomes and confronts the growing concern over selectivity. By nature, childcare services tend to be used mainly by people in work, i.e. those in higher income brackets. Concern therefore arises about the consequences …
The unequal benefits of activation
In the last few decades, measures to reconcile work and family life have risen in mutual interaction with a rising rate of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has (to date) been adopted in a socially uneven way in most European societies. Therefore, one may wonder whether the activation measures have brought about a loss of vertical redistribution in welfare states. We address this question by focusing on the interaction of three measures o…
De terugkeer van het mattheuseffect?
This research note investigates the presence of a so called Matthew effect in the use and distribution of childcare services in the Belgian region of Flanders. The analyses show that this is the case and that the use of childcare is unequally distributed among society. Low income families with children make only half as much use of childcare services than higher income families. Next to this, the distributional efforts of the government with rega…
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
Child Well-being in Flanders
Thomas, Nigel, Children. Family and the State
Female employment differences, poverty and care provisions
In this article, we link an analysis of female employment in the OECD with a reflection on the role of the welfare state regarding the provision of care. First, we reveal a picture of multi-speed labour market participation, with highly skilled women approaching male employment rates irrespective of the type of welfare state and low-skilled women lagging considerably behind, especially in the conservative welfare states. We also show that the gap…
Who benefits? The social distribution of subsidized childcare in Sweden and Flanders
The main goal of this article is to unravel the social distribution of childcare policies: Who benefits from government investment in public childcare? The analysis complements earlier research on the distribution of social policy outcomes and confronts the growing concern over selectivity. By nature, childcare services tend to be used mainly by people in work, i.e. those in higher income brackets. Concern therefore arises about the consequences …
Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare service use across 31 developed economies
Childcare services are increasingly regarded a major policy lever to combat social inequalities in early life. Yet, it was shown that inequality in the use of childcare services is the norm rather than the exception in European and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. As a result, social inequalities between disadvantaged and advantaged children are likely to be reinforced instead of being narrowed. The aim of …
The unequal benefits of activation
In the last few decades, measures to reconcile work and family life have risen in mutual interaction with a rising rate of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has (to date) been adopted in a socially uneven way in most European societies. Therefore, one may wonder whether the activation measures have brought about a loss of vertical redistribution in welfare states. We address this question by focusing on the interaction of three measures o…
The impact of child benefits on single mother poverty
Single mothers are vulnerable to living in poverty. The question of how to safeguard the economic status of single mothers in a context of increasing dual earnership is a crucial one. In the present study we addressed this issue by investigating the impact of child benefits on the poverty risk of single mothers in 15 E uropean countries. We focused in particular on the design of child benefits and investigated whether targeting towards single mot…
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
Educational inequalities in parental care time
Female employment differences, poverty and care provisions
In this article, we link an analysis of female employment in the OECD with a reflection on the role of the welfare state regarding the provision of care. First, we reveal a picture of multi-speed labour market participation, with highly skilled women approaching male employment rates irrespective of the type of welfare state and low-skilled women lagging considerably behind, especially in the conservative welfare states. We also show that the gap…
Child Well-being in Flanders
Female employment differences, poverty and care provisions
In this article, we link an analysis of female employment in the OECD with a reflection on the role of the welfare state regarding the provision of care. First, we reveal a picture of multi-speed labour market participation, with highly skilled women approaching male employment rates irrespective of the type of welfare state and low-skilled women lagging considerably behind, especially in the conservative welfare states. We also show that the gap…
Thomas, Nigel, Children. Family and the State
Child Well-being in Flanders
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
De terugkeer van het mattheuseffect?
This research note investigates the presence of a so called Matthew effect in the use and distribution of childcare services in the Belgian region of Flanders. The analyses show that this is the case and that the use of childcare is unequally distributed among society. Low income families with children make only half as much use of childcare services than higher income families. Next to this, the distributional efforts of the government with rega…
The unequal benefits of activation
In the last few decades, measures to reconcile work and family life have risen in mutual interaction with a rising rate of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has (to date) been adopted in a socially uneven way in most European societies. Therefore, one may wonder whether the activation measures have brought about a loss of vertical redistribution in welfare states. We address this question by focusing on the interaction of three measures o…
Lineage Based Differences in Grandparental Investment
Who benefits? The social distribution of subsidized childcare in Sweden and Flanders
The main goal of this article is to unravel the social distribution of childcare policies: Who benefits from government investment in public childcare? The analysis complements earlier research on the distribution of social policy outcomes and confronts the growing concern over selectivity. By nature, childcare services tend to be used mainly by people in work, i.e. those in higher income brackets. Concern therefore arises about the consequences …
Wie heeft profijt van het overheidsbeleid? - Kinderopvang in Zweden en België (Vlaanderen)
Who benefits from government investment in childcare? .The case of Sweden and Belgium (Flanders) Childcare is promoted at the national and European level as a policy instrument par excellence to simultaneously reconcile work and family duties and increase female employment rates. As a consequence, European governments increasingly deploy resources to subsidise childcare services. The main goal of this paper is to unravel who benefits from this go…
Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries
Family policy is a constituent part of the traditional social policy mix that has been subject to profound changes in terms of both scope and substance following the emergence of the social investment paradigm. Therefore, the shift from cash to service spending is further explored with a specific focus on family policy (i.e. child benefits, childcare services and parental leave benefits). Based on expenditure trends, little support is found for t…
The impact of child benefits on single mother poverty
Single mothers are vulnerable to living in poverty. The question of how to safeguard the economic status of single mothers in a context of increasing dual earnership is a crucial one. In the present study we addressed this issue by investigating the impact of child benefits on the poverty risk of single mothers in 15 E uropean countries. We focused in particular on the design of child benefits and investigated whether targeting towards single mot…
Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare service use across 31 developed economies
Childcare services are increasingly regarded a major policy lever to combat social inequalities in early life. Yet, it was shown that inequality in the use of childcare services is the norm rather than the exception in European and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. As a result, social inequalities between disadvantaged and advantaged children are likely to be reinforced instead of being narrowed. The aim of …
Educational inequalities in parental care time
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Public economics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)