Care Economy: An Outline of a New Research Project
Care Economy: An Outline of a New Research Project
- Actualité Sciences Po
LIEPP's Socio-fiscal Policies Research Group is glad to invite you to the lunch-seminar:
Care Economy: An Outline of a New Research Project
Monday, April 30th 2018
12:30 pm - 02:30 pm
LIEPP's seminar Room
254 bvd Saint-Germain, 75 007 Paris
Presentation:
Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy
"Care Economy: An Outline of a New Research Project"
Abstract:
Care economy refers to the sector of economic activities, both paid and unpaid, related to the provisions of social and material care, including care of children, the elderly and the disabled, health care, education, and as well, financial and other personal services, all of which contribute to nurturing and supporting the present and future populations. While the expansion of the care economy is evident across the OECD world, their forms and modalities vary significantly across regions. In this presentation I show four different forms of care economies – in East Asia, Europe and North America – and ask: 1) why do we see different types of care economies across different regions of the world; and 2) what are the factors/variables that can account for their differences, and how do they contribute to the diverse outcomes. I provide a tentative conceptual approach and methodology to address these research questions, and discuss an opportunity for a potential collaborative international research project.
Discussion:
Nathalie Morel
Assistant Professor LIEPP/CEE
Co-director of Socio-fiscal Policies Research Group