abstract: 'The social investment approach emerged as a new welfare paradigm, aimed

  at reconciling the traditional functions of the welfare supply with a

  productive social agenda, designed at preparing people to confront the

  `new social risks'', whether they be related to the problem of balancing

  paid work and family responsibilities, upgrading the skills, preventing

  inequalities and promoting the availability of in-kind services. In

  order to achieve these objectives, especially those related to care

  needs and work-life balance, the adoption of social investment-based

  strategies necessarily implies an expansion of the jobs related to

  health and social care services. In more recent years, many studies have

  analysed the limitations of the social investment policies because of

  their different redistributive impacts on social groups. Several studies

  have found a higher use of these policies for high-income families.

  Another source of criticism on social investment is that spending on

  these policies would seem to crowd out more traditional passive social

  expenditures. In this article, we examine another question related to

  the widespread of this approach: what are the effects of the social

  investment policies in terms of direct job creation? In fact, one of the

  more controversial issues, related to social investment policies, is

  their direct contribution to the labour market in terms of both quantity

  and quality of work within welfare services. The article analyses these

  issues focusing on Germany and Italy, two countries that represent not

  only two different care regimes but also two distinct models regarding

  job creation strategies in the care sector. In doing so, particular

  attention will be paid to long-term care policies, as they represent one

  of the pivotal areas of the social investment approach, both in terms of

  social services, to address new social risks, and new jobs related to

  welfare services'
affiliation: 'Ciarini, A (Corresponding Author), Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Social \&
  Econ Sci, Via Salaria 113, I-00198 Rome, Italy.

  Ciarini, Andrea, Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Social \& Econ Sci, Via Salaria 113, I-00198
  Rome, Italy.'
author: Ciarini, Andrea
author-email: Andrea.ciarini@uniroma1.it
author_list:
- family: Ciarini
  given: Andrea
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/03906701.2016.1206295
eissn: 1469-9273
files: []
issn: 0390-6701
journal: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIE
keywords: White jobs; care labour market; welfare regimes
keywords-plus: CARE REGIMES; MIGRATION
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '50'
pages: 497-512
papis_id: faae34f458646b4cb05771abb0ebc7fd
ref: Ciarini2016socialinvestment
times-cited: '1'
title: The social investment approach as a field of job creation. From the `recalibration'
  to a resurgent trade-off between employment growth and low wage (white) jobs. A
  comparison between Germany and Italy
type: Article
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volume: '26'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2016'