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Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approach
Workshop "Family policies in (Eastern, Central and Northern) Europe with the emphasis on Child Day-Care"
22. May 2014 14.00 to 17.30
Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approach
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What this project is aiming at:
– Applying ‘theoretically enlighten’ policies in matching children and pre-schools (kindergartens, day-cares) – Learning from neighbours ‘best practices’
WP1: Modern family policy
– – Gender perspective Work-life balance
WP2: Current matching mechanisms
– – Failures of current semi-centralised mechanisms (allocation principle) Recommendations (from literature) of designing fair mechanism
WP3: Policy implications
– – How application (fair mechanism) can contribute to gender equality and work-life balance; How universal are recommendations (how central should market be)?
Outline
14.00-14.45
Kadri Simm "Theories of (Distributive) Justice – what, for whom and why?" 14.45-15.30
conditions affect the positive outcome of the contemporary family policy?" Triin Lauri "Working mothers and high fertility – what 15.30-16.15
Triin Roosalu & Karmo Kroos "Known and unknown aspects about the family polices in soviet and post-soviet Central and Eastern Europe„ 16.15-17.00
Per Isaksen, Heidi Ųstland Vala & Ingunn Sęlid Sell
“Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices – Norwegian case” 17.00 – 17.30 Discussion “Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices, diffusion of the ideas – Estonian case” Warm-up Helbe Põdder “Attitudes of work-life-balance and the context of family policy: Sweden, Finland, Estonia”
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Discussion:
Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices, diffusion of the ideas Estonian case What we can learn from comparative (system level analysis)?
– – What can we learn from Norway?
If even Nordics have also many paths to ‘good outcome’ then how many more there can be?
– Local vs central policies?
How our choices are affected by post-communist path-dependent policies and institutions/attitudes?
– Do attitudes matter? Do attitudes construct policies, or policies attitudes? Or is this meaningful question after all?
Everybody is wanting to rely on fairness ? What is fairness?
– – Gender (equal opportunities in the labour market) The right of families (vs. pro-natalism) to make decisions? Family as an agent or a institution?
– Equal opportunities to children (ECEC – more care, more education) – Can fertility (pro-natalism) be ultimate aim (or any other state level ‘political objective’, i.e. incentives for imposing dual-earner family model)?
– Positive discrimination – justice as fairness (2nd principle) and other justifications.