Mare Ainsaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3557652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mare Ainsaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mare |
| FAMILY NAME | Ainsaar |
| SIGNATURE | AINSAAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9275-0997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The gender gap in the care economy is larger in highly developed countries: Sociocultural explanations for paradoxical findings
Despite the growing demand for care economy employees (e.g., nurses, teachers, and social workers), men remain underrepresented in these careers. While economically developed countries support more equal rights for women and men, their labor markets are highly gender segregated (Charles, 1992, 2003). We conducted a focused investigation of this paradoxical pattern in the care economy, testing whether gender gaps in care economy career interest ar…
Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Length of Stay in the New Country
A large amount of research is dedicated to the measurement of immigration trends and integration processes, but comparative studies of the components of immigrants’ well-being are rare. This paper investigates the link between the length of stay and the subjective well-being (SWB) of immigrants. A step-by-step regression method is used to understand interactions between different individual- and macro-level factors in the life satisfaction of imm…
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
Current trends in social welfare policies toward the older people in the Baltic and Nordic countries: An explorative study
This article reviews welfare policy arrangements developed in the Baltic and Nordic countries to address the problems of aging. The findings show that after almost thirty years of redesigning social policy and welfare systems in the Baltic countries, senior citizens remain in a precarious situation. As expected, the Nordic countries are yet superior in terms of benefits and services. The trend toward marketization and re-familialization of elderl…
Economic inequality in satisfaction with healthcare in the Baltic countries during and after the economic crisis (2008–2014)
Public satisfaction with healthcare systems is an important dimension of healthcare legitimacy. The paper analyzes how satisfaction with healthcare systems depended upon the economic situation of our respondents during and after the economic recession in the Baltic states. The results show that there were no differences in public satisfaction with healthcare between better and worse off people in Estonia (except in 2009). In Lithuania, however, s…
Economic crisis, families, and family policy in the Baltic states, 2009–2014
The three Baltic countries experienced the most rapid population decline throughout the 1990s and 2000s in Europe. The resulting critical demographic situation motivated the governments of the Baltic states to pay more political attention to family policy issues than in the rest of Europe. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development of family policy in Baltic countries and factors that influenced it during the 2009 economic crisis. Also, t…
European Demographic Change and Welfare Challenges
Well-being and environmental quality: Does pollution affect life satisfaction
Relationship Between Low Depressiveness and Domain Specific Physical Activity in Women
In this study we investigated how different domains of physical activity are associated with depressiveness among women, and how individual variables moderate this relationship. Participants were 956 women, and the data were collected by mail-out survey using the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, and International Personality Item Pool. Lower depressiveness was related to higher leisure time physical activity and …
Resource, Life Stage and Partner-Related Reasons of Postponement of Births: Comparison of Estonia and Finland; Pp. 109–128
Decreasing fertility has been accompanied with the rising age of mothers almost in all the Western countries. Because of the lack of individual level surveys, the reasons for the postponement are often studied indirectly with the macro level data. Our aim is to explore the individual reasons of the postponement of births with a direct measurement instrument. The postponement of birth is defined as a situation when a person would like to have a ch…
Selected Rural Growth in Estonia 1989–2000 – Sub- Or Counterurbanisation? Different Analyses – Different Results
There are different visions of the future of regional development in more advanced countries. Some researchers have seen the continuous concentration of population on certain areas as quite plausible development strategy; some support the hypothesis of future dispersal of population over wider areas. The few studies carried out on the 1990s and 2000s do not support either of these directions. For the first time after eleven years the population c…
The development of children and family policy in Estonia from 1945 to 2000
The paper gives an overview ofthe formation ofEstonian family policy in the periodfrom 1945 to 2000. Deeper analyses are dedicated to the most recent decade and to thefactors which have influenced family policy and the main objects of discussion. Forthat purpose statistics and interviews with policy makers are analysed. The paper comesto the conclusion that child and family policy carries traces ofhistory, different institutionsand traditions. Fa…
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
Economic inequality in satisfaction with healthcare in the Baltic countries during and after the economic crisis (2008–2014)
Public satisfaction with healthcare systems is an important dimension of healthcare legitimacy. The paper analyzes how satisfaction with healthcare systems depended upon the economic situation of our respondents during and after the economic recession in the Baltic states. The results show that there were no differences in public satisfaction with healthcare between better and worse off people in Estonia (except in 2009). In Lithuania, however, s…
Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Length of Stay in the New Country
A large amount of research is dedicated to the measurement of immigration trends and integration processes, but comparative studies of the components of immigrants’ well-being are rare. This paper investigates the link between the length of stay and the subjective well-being (SWB) of immigrants. A step-by-step regression method is used to understand interactions between different individual- and macro-level factors in the life satisfaction of imm…
Economic crisis, families, and family policy in the Baltic states, 2009–2014
The three Baltic countries experienced the most rapid population decline throughout the 1990s and 2000s in Europe. The resulting critical demographic situation motivated the governments of the Baltic states to pay more political attention to family policy issues than in the rest of Europe. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development of family policy in Baltic countries and factors that influenced it during the 2009 economic crisis. Also, t…
The development of children and family policy in Estonia from 1945 to 2000
The paper gives an overview ofthe formation ofEstonian family policy in the periodfrom 1945 to 2000. Deeper analyses are dedicated to the most recent decade and to thefactors which have influenced family policy and the main objects of discussion. Forthat purpose statistics and interviews with policy makers are analysed. The paper comesto the conclusion that child and family policy carries traces ofhistory, different institutionsand traditions. Fa…
Selected Rural Growth in Estonia 1989–2000 – Sub- Or Counterurbanisation? Different Analyses – Different Results
There are different visions of the future of regional development in more advanced countries. Some researchers have seen the continuous concentration of population on certain areas as quite plausible development strategy; some support the hypothesis of future dispersal of population over wider areas. The few studies carried out on the 1990s and 2000s do not support either of these directions. For the first time after eleven years the population c…
Resource, Life Stage and Partner-Related Reasons of Postponement of Births: Comparison of Estonia and Finland; Pp. 109–128
Decreasing fertility has been accompanied with the rising age of mothers almost in all the Western countries. Because of the lack of individual level surveys, the reasons for the postponement are often studied indirectly with the macro level data. Our aim is to explore the individual reasons of the postponement of births with a direct measurement instrument. The postponement of birth is defined as a situation when a person would like to have a ch…
Relationship Between Low Depressiveness and Domain Specific Physical Activity in Women
In this study we investigated how different domains of physical activity are associated with depressiveness among women, and how individual variables moderate this relationship. Participants were 956 women, and the data were collected by mail-out survey using the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, and International Personality Item Pool. Lower depressiveness was related to higher leisure time physical activity and …
Well-being and environmental quality: Does pollution affect life satisfaction
European Demographic Change and Welfare Challenges
Economic inequality in satisfaction with healthcare in the Baltic countries during and after the economic crisis (2008–2014)
Public satisfaction with healthcare systems is an important dimension of healthcare legitimacy. The paper analyzes how satisfaction with healthcare systems depended upon the economic situation of our respondents during and after the economic recession in the Baltic states. The results show that there were no differences in public satisfaction with healthcare between better and worse off people in Estonia (except in 2009). In Lithuania, however, s…
Economic crisis, families, and family policy in the Baltic states, 2009–2014
The three Baltic countries experienced the most rapid population decline throughout the 1990s and 2000s in Europe. The resulting critical demographic situation motivated the governments of the Baltic states to pay more political attention to family policy issues than in the rest of Europe. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development of family policy in Baltic countries and factors that influenced it during the 2009 economic crisis. Also, t…
Current trends in social welfare policies toward the older people in the Baltic and Nordic countries: An explorative study
This article reviews welfare policy arrangements developed in the Baltic and Nordic countries to address the problems of aging. The findings show that after almost thirty years of redesigning social policy and welfare systems in the Baltic countries, senior citizens remain in a precarious situation. As expected, the Nordic countries are yet superior in terms of benefits and services. The trend toward marketization and re-familialization of elderl…
Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Length of Stay in the New Country
A large amount of research is dedicated to the measurement of immigration trends and integration processes, but comparative studies of the components of immigrants’ well-being are rare. This paper investigates the link between the length of stay and the subjective well-being (SWB) of immigrants. A step-by-step regression method is used to understand interactions between different individual- and macro-level factors in the life satisfaction of imm…
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
The gender gap in the care economy is larger in highly developed countries: Sociocultural explanations for paradoxical findings
Despite the growing demand for care economy employees (e.g., nurses, teachers, and social workers), men remain underrepresented in these careers. While economically developed countries support more equal rights for women and men, their labor markets are highly gender segregated (Charles, 1992, 2003). We conducted a focused investigation of this paradoxical pattern in the care economy, testing whether gender gaps in care economy career interest ar…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)