Challenges to the Welfare State

Edited by Jolanta Aidukaite, Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania, Sven E.O. Hort, Formerly Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Professor of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea and Stein Kuhnle, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway and Emeritus Professor, the Hertie School, the University of Governance, Berlin, Germany

Contents:

Preface xii

1 Introduction: Baltic and Nordic countries from
a comparative perspective – family policies and pensions
in the era of ageing 1
Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Stein Kuhnle

PART I PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY POLICY
2 Family support systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries:
an explorative overview 11
Jolanta Aidukaite
3 Demographic challenges of Europe in the new millennium:
Swedish family policies as an answer to them 33
Livia Sz. Oláh and Gerda Neyer
4 Nordic family policy in the 2000s: from a ‘transfer-based’
towards a ‘service-based’ family policy? 52
Mia Hakovirta and Mikael Nygård
5 Family policy support for the earner-carer and
traditional-family models in Lithuania and Sweden1 72
Katharina Wesolowski, Sunnee Billingsley and Gerda Neyer
6 The sustainability of family support systems in the 21st
century: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 94
Jolanta Aidukaite and Kristina Senkuviene
7 Cost of childcare: evolution of regional diversity in Estonia 119
Mare Ainsaar and Mona Sõukand

PART II PERSPECTIVES ON PENSION PROTECTION
IN THE ERA OF AGEING
8 Ageing and the welfare state: welfare policies and attitudes in the Baltic and Nordic countries 137
Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Mare Ainsaar
9 Gender inequalities in family leaves, employment and
pensions in Finland 160
Kati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen
10 Approaches to minimum-income protection in old age:
comparing the three Scandinavian countries 180
Axel West Pedersen
11 Pension systems as risk management: a case of the Baltic states 202
Olga Rajevska
12 Looking for an adequate and sustainable old-age pension
system: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 224
Teodoras Medaiskis and Šarūnas Eirošius
13 The inequality of public pension benefits for the elderly
using Estonian data 248
Magnus Piirits
14 Stretching the canvas: beyond welfare state typologies to
capability and agency 267
Barbara Hobson

Index