1. Migrant care work and care, migration and employment regimes: A fuzzy-set analysis.
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Da Roit, Barbara and Weicht, Bernhard
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LONG-term health care , *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) , *DATA analysis , *LABOR market , *BLUE collar workers , *CAREGIVERS , *COMPARATIVE studies , *HOME health aides , *UNDOCUMENTED immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *LABOR supply , *NURSING home employees , *PATH analysis (Statistics) , *GOVERNMENT aid , *PRIVATE sector , *PUBLIC sector , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Migrant care work has emerged as an increasingly important solution to the challenges of growing eldercare needs in both the private and the public sphere. Migrant workers are employed in domestic services in Southern European and in some continental European countries, and they are a significant part of the work force in the formal care sector in many national contexts. The article provides an exploratory cross-country analysis of the phenomenon. After assessing the extent of migrant care work based on individually contracted workers in the domestic sector vs. organization-based care workers in nine European welfare states, it investigates which conditions sustain specific national patterns. Using fuzzy-set analysis the article demonstrates how the intersection of care, migration and employment regimes shapes different patterns of migrant care work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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