Ilze Plavgo
Biographic Data
| ID | 340053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilze Plavgo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilze |
| FAMILY NAME | Plavgo |
| SIGNATURE | PLAVGO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6226-3303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Policy complementarity or substitution? The joint employment effects of active labor market policy and early childhood education and care
Scholars have long argued that social policies affect people’s employment chances in interconnected ways, where a given policy intervention might have employment effects that are strengthened or dampened by other interventions. This article theorizes and empirically assesses how national active labor market polices (ALMP) and early childhood education and care (ECEC) interact in affecting individuals’ employment chances. The objective is to addre…
How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe
Public investments in childcare generally improve parents' employment chances, yet evidence on their magnitude, cross‐national variation, and social distribution remains mixed. This study examines how public spending on early childhood education and care (ECEC) moderates post‐childbirth employment attachment across Europe. Using longitudinal EU‐SILC microdata for 26 countries (2003–2020) combined with social policy indicators, multilevel mixed‐ef…
Trends and Determinants of Intergenerational Educational Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for Birth Cohorts 1974 to 2003
This article expands the scope of comparative social stratification research in education to rapidly developing, largely low-income sub-Saharan Africa. First, we investigate trends in the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's chances to attend and complete primary education, exploring whether and where educational expansion of the early twenty-first century led to equalization of educational opportunities. Drawing…
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation
This paper theorises and empirically assesses how education and active labour market policy (ALMP) relate to each other in shaping individuals' employment chances in Europe. It provides a theoretical base for assessing policy complementarities building on sociological skill‐formation literature, varieties of capitalism and social investment literature. Two hypotheses of complementarity are advanced: reinforcement whereby higher investment in gene…
Social investment as a conceptual framework for analysing well-being returns and reforms in 21st century welfare states
Welfare provision is often conceived through the lens of decommodification and analysed in (re)distributive terms. This article argues that a distributive approach does not sufficiently capture the complexity of 21st century welfare state dynamics. It proposes re-conceptualizing provision as a mix of three policy functions: raising and maintaining human capital stock; easing the flow of gendered life-course and labour-market transitions; guarante…
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article
Social policy research is truly interdisciplinary with academics from very different theoretical perspectives working together in fervent open-mindedness towards diverse methodological approaches. The exploration of social investment (SI) welfare provision is a clear example of this spirit of interdisciplinary engagement, having stirred up critical scholarly reception and debate over the past decade. On the one hand, some colleagues underscore th…
The social investment litmus test: Family formation, employment and poverty
Over the past decade, the notion of ‘social investment’ (SI) has gained considerable traction in the political debates over welfare state futures. The multifaceted character of SI policy interventions, the effects of policy complementarities and interactions for different social groups and generational cohorts, and the challenge of delineating effects across different time dimensions, we argue, are not (yet) properly addressed by current empirica…
Analysing Multidimensional Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings Using an International Comparative Approach
Child Poverty in the European Union: The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis Approach (EU-Moda)
The social investment litmus test: Family formation, employment and poverty
Over the past decade, the notion of ‘social investment’ (SI) has gained considerable traction in the political debates over welfare state futures. The multifaceted character of SI policy interventions, the effects of policy complementarities and interactions for different social groups and generational cohorts, and the challenge of delineating effects across different time dimensions, we argue, are not (yet) properly addressed by current empirica…
Social investment as a conceptual framework for analysing well-being returns and reforms in 21st century welfare states
Welfare provision is often conceived through the lens of decommodification and analysed in (re)distributive terms. This article argues that a distributive approach does not sufficiently capture the complexity of 21st century welfare state dynamics. It proposes re-conceptualizing provision as a mix of three policy functions: raising and maintaining human capital stock; easing the flow of gendered life-course and labour-market transitions; guarante…
Child Poverty in the European Union: The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis Approach (EU-Moda)
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article
Social policy research is truly interdisciplinary with academics from very different theoretical perspectives working together in fervent open-mindedness towards diverse methodological approaches. The exploration of social investment (SI) welfare provision is a clear example of this spirit of interdisciplinary engagement, having stirred up critical scholarly reception and debate over the past decade. On the one hand, some colleagues underscore th…
Analysing Multidimensional Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings Using an International Comparative Approach
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation
This paper theorises and empirically assesses how education and active labour market policy (ALMP) relate to each other in shaping individuals' employment chances in Europe. It provides a theoretical base for assessing policy complementarities building on sociological skill‐formation literature, varieties of capitalism and social investment literature. Two hypotheses of complementarity are advanced: reinforcement whereby higher investment in gene…
Trends and Determinants of Intergenerational Educational Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for Birth Cohorts 1974 to 2003
This article expands the scope of comparative social stratification research in education to rapidly developing, largely low-income sub-Saharan Africa. First, we investigate trends in the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's chances to attend and complete primary education, exploring whether and where educational expansion of the early twenty-first century led to equalization of educational opportunities. Drawing…
Child Poverty in the European Union: The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis Approach (EU-Moda)
Analysing Multidimensional Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings Using an International Comparative Approach
The social investment litmus test: Family formation, employment and poverty
Over the past decade, the notion of ‘social investment’ (SI) has gained considerable traction in the political debates over welfare state futures. The multifaceted character of SI policy interventions, the effects of policy complementarities and interactions for different social groups and generational cohorts, and the challenge of delineating effects across different time dimensions, we argue, are not (yet) properly addressed by current empirica…
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article
Social policy research is truly interdisciplinary with academics from very different theoretical perspectives working together in fervent open-mindedness towards diverse methodological approaches. The exploration of social investment (SI) welfare provision is a clear example of this spirit of interdisciplinary engagement, having stirred up critical scholarly reception and debate over the past decade. On the one hand, some colleagues underscore th…
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation
This paper theorises and empirically assesses how education and active labour market policy (ALMP) relate to each other in shaping individuals' employment chances in Europe. It provides a theoretical base for assessing policy complementarities building on sociological skill‐formation literature, varieties of capitalism and social investment literature. Two hypotheses of complementarity are advanced: reinforcement whereby higher investment in gene…
Social investment as a conceptual framework for analysing well-being returns and reforms in 21st century welfare states
Welfare provision is often conceived through the lens of decommodification and analysed in (re)distributive terms. This article argues that a distributive approach does not sufficiently capture the complexity of 21st century welfare state dynamics. It proposes re-conceptualizing provision as a mix of three policy functions: raising and maintaining human capital stock; easing the flow of gendered life-course and labour-market transitions; guarante…
Trends and Determinants of Intergenerational Educational Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for Birth Cohorts 1974 to 2003
This article expands the scope of comparative social stratification research in education to rapidly developing, largely low-income sub-Saharan Africa. First, we investigate trends in the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's chances to attend and complete primary education, exploring whether and where educational expansion of the early twenty-first century led to equalization of educational opportunities. Drawing…
How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe
Public investments in childcare generally improve parents' employment chances, yet evidence on their magnitude, cross‐national variation, and social distribution remains mixed. This study examines how public spending on early childhood education and care (ECEC) moderates post‐childbirth employment attachment across Europe. Using longitudinal EU‐SILC microdata for 26 countries (2003–2020) combined with social policy indicators, multilevel mixed‐ef…
Policy complementarity or substitution? The joint employment effects of active labor market policy and early childhood education and care
Scholars have long argued that social policies affect people’s employment chances in interconnected ways, where a given policy intervention might have employment effects that are strengthened or dampened by other interventions. This article theorizes and empirically assesses how national active labor market polices (ALMP) and early childhood education and care (ECEC) interact in affecting individuals’ employment chances. The objective is to addre…
Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Welfare state (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Investment (military (3 works)