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Care workers in Argentina: At the crossroads of labour market institutions and care services
Author(s) -
ESQUIVEL Valeria
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2010.00099.x
Subject(s) - enforcement , labour economics , business , public sector , child care , care work , service (business) , economic growth , economics , nursing , political science , work (physics) , marketing , economy , medicine , mechanical engineering , law , engineering
. In Argentina, one third of all employed women, but only 3 per cent of all employed men, are care workers. Their relative pay and working conditions depend not only on applicable labour market regulations (and enforcement) but also, crucially, on the organization of care service provision, including the degree of public‐sector engagement in the provision of particular services, the different care providers, and the locus of care provision (institutional vs. other contexts, e.g. households). Comparing two childcare‐related occupations (early‐education teaching and domestic service), the author argues that those two – possibly mutually reinforcing – dimensions intersect to explain differences between care workers' labour market positions.