Ralf Och
Biographic Data
| ID | 347098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralf Och |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralf |
| FAMILY NAME | Och |
| SIGNATURE | OCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8973-6556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Marketisation policies in the neoliberal era
Confronted with the problem of ageing populations since the 1990s, many European welfare states have massively expanded public support for the care of the elderly. This expansion occurred during the neoliberal era in which the marketisation of social services was high on European countries’ political agendas. There are many studies concerned with cross-national differences between national policies regarding the marketisation of care, but little …
Re-conceptualising the relationship between de-familialisation and familialisation and the implications for gender equality – the case of long-term care policies for older people
This article explores how far the concepts of de-familialisation/familialisation are adequate to the classification of long-term care (LTC) policies for older people. In the theoretical debate over LTC policies, de-familialising and familialising policies are often treated as opposites. We propose re-conceptualising the relation between de-familialisation and familialisation, arguing that they represent substantially different types of policy tha…
The Family in Minimum Income Benefits in Europe
Whether and to what extent the means of family members and familial care activities are relevant in the calculation of welfare benefits is often neglected in welfare state analysis. By quantifying qualitative institutional data, we analyze this aspect and how it has changed in regard to minimum-income benefits for persons of pension age and unemployed persons in ten European welfare states. We find no general trend toward individualization of ent…
Individualisierung der Sozialbürgerschaft? Entwicklungen und Widersprüche in Europa
The Difficulty of Measuring Institutions
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Institutional Individualisation? The Family in European Social Security Institutions
Welfare institutions have long been set up in most European countries in ways oriented towards the family as the one basic principle. Reforms in recent times however have fundamentally changed the conception of the social citizen. Yet social rights are still mainly conceptualised in the literature in terms of employee rights, and family elements are often interpreted as a kind of vestige of the traditional welfare-state policies of industrial soc…
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Re-conceptualising the relationship between de-familialisation and familialisation and the implications for gender equality – the case of long-term care policies for older people
This article explores how far the concepts of de-familialisation/familialisation are adequate to the classification of long-term care (LTC) policies for older people. In the theoretical debate over LTC policies, de-familialising and familialising policies are often treated as opposites. We propose re-conceptualising the relation between de-familialisation and familialisation, arguing that they represent substantially different types of policy tha…
The Difficulty of Measuring Institutions
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Institutional Individualisation? The Family in European Social Security Institutions
Welfare institutions have long been set up in most European countries in ways oriented towards the family as the one basic principle. Reforms in recent times however have fundamentally changed the conception of the social citizen. Yet social rights are still mainly conceptualised in the literature in terms of employee rights, and family elements are often interpreted as a kind of vestige of the traditional welfare-state policies of industrial soc…
The Family in Minimum Income Benefits in Europe
Whether and to what extent the means of family members and familial care activities are relevant in the calculation of welfare benefits is often neglected in welfare state analysis. By quantifying qualitative institutional data, we analyze this aspect and how it has changed in regard to minimum-income benefits for persons of pension age and unemployed persons in ten European welfare states. We find no general trend toward individualization of ent…
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Institutional Individualisation? The Family in European Social Security Institutions
Welfare institutions have long been set up in most European countries in ways oriented towards the family as the one basic principle. Reforms in recent times however have fundamentally changed the conception of the social citizen. Yet social rights are still mainly conceptualised in the literature in terms of employee rights, and family elements are often interpreted as a kind of vestige of the traditional welfare-state policies of industrial soc…
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Individualisierung der Sozialbürgerschaft? Entwicklungen und Widersprüche in Europa
The Difficulty of Measuring Institutions
The Family in Minimum Income Benefits in Europe
Whether and to what extent the means of family members and familial care activities are relevant in the calculation of welfare benefits is often neglected in welfare state analysis. By quantifying qualitative institutional data, we analyze this aspect and how it has changed in regard to minimum-income benefits for persons of pension age and unemployed persons in ten European welfare states. We find no general trend toward individualization of ent…
Re-conceptualising the relationship between de-familialisation and familialisation and the implications for gender equality – the case of long-term care policies for older people
This article explores how far the concepts of de-familialisation/familialisation are adequate to the classification of long-term care (LTC) policies for older people. In the theoretical debate over LTC policies, de-familialising and familialising policies are often treated as opposites. We propose re-conceptualising the relation between de-familialisation and familialisation, arguing that they represent substantially different types of policy tha…
Marketisation policies in the neoliberal era
Confronted with the problem of ageing populations since the 1990s, many European welfare states have massively expanded public support for the care of the elderly. This expansion occurred during the neoliberal era in which the marketisation of social services was high on European countries’ political agendas. There are many studies concerned with cross-national differences between national policies regarding the marketisation of care, but little …
Political science (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Welfare state (4 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Welfare (3 works)