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Equal Treatment, Labor Promotion, or Social Investment? Reconciliation Policy in Finnish and Dutch Coalition Programs 1995–2016
Author(s) -
Gerven Minna,
Nygård Mikael
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european policy analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2380-6567
DOI - 10.1002/epa2.1007
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , investment (military) , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , social policy , political science , public policy , economics , labour economics , public economics , demographic economics , economic growth , market economy , law , politics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , engineering
This article investigates government‐level intentions on work/family reconciliation policies in Finland and the Netherlands. By analyzing the coalition programs between 1995 and 2016, it traces three dominant ideas of equal treatment, employment promotion, and social investment in the reconciliation policy discourses in these countries. The content analysis shows a general tendency toward labor promotion in both countries and weak steps toward social investment have been taken. The dominant ideas seem, however, reasonably stable over time.