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SNUAC Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Seminar Series, Spring 2016
COMPARING WELFARE REGIMES ACROSS WORLD REGIONS:
CARE ARRANGEMENTS IN EAST ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA
Peter Abrahamson
East Asia and Latin America are both late comers with respect to welfare state development and they also share a strong family orientation, which has strongly influenced the welfare regimes. Both places social security benefits are quite well developed for those in the formal labor market, but lacking for the informally employed. Furthermore, care policies for the old, the handicapped, disabled and children, are underdeveloped in most countries within both regions, which has led to extremely low fertility rates in East Asia and among middle class women in the Southern Cone (MERCOSUR) in South America, since highly educated women choose carrier over motherhood since it is impossible for them to balance work and family life.
The study compares care arrangements with an eye to gender and on a backdrop of the development of the Scandinavian welfare regime where a generous and extensive family policy has led to an increase in fertility rates.
Peter Abrahamson is associate professor of Sociology at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 2009 – 10 he was professor of social policy at Seoul National University in South Korea. His research interests revolve around comparative studies of welfare state issues. 2006 to 2008 he lived in and worked on Central America, and before that we worked on Europe based at University of Copenhagen. He is co-author of Welfare and Families in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate 2005 and co-editor of Understanding Social Policy in Europe. Taipei: Casa Verde Publishing 2008 and New Social Partnerships in Europe. Copenhagen: The Copenhagen Centre 2003. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. in public administration from Roskilde University.
Date & Time: June 9 (Thursday) 2016, 12:00-13:00 Location: SNUAC #304
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