abstract: 'Over the past ten years in Italy, Spain and France, the demographic

  pressure and the increasing women''s participation in labour market have

  fuelled the expansion of the private provision of domestic and care

  services. In order to ensure the difficult balance between

  affordability, quality and job creation, each countries'' response has

  been different. France has developed policies to sustain the demand side

  introducing instruments such as vouchers and fiscal schemes, since the

  mid of the 2000s. Massive public funding has contributed to foster a

  regular market of domestic and care services and France is often

  presented as a ``best practices{''''} of those policies aimed at

  encouraging a regular private sector. Conversely in Italy and Spain, the

  development of a private domestic and care market has been mostly

  uncontrolled and without a coherent institutional design: the osmosis

  between a large informal market and the regular private care sector has

  been ensured on the supply side by migrant workers'' regularizations or

  the introduction of new employment regulations. The analysis presented

  in this paper aims to describe the response of these different policies

  to the challenges imposed by the current economic crisis. In dealing

  with the retrenchment of public expenditure and the reduced households''

  purchasing power, Italy, Spain and France are experiencing greater

  difficulties in ensuring a regular private sector of domestic and care

  services. In light of that, the paper analyses the recent economic

  conjuncture presenting some assumptions about the future risk of deeper

  inequalities rising along with the increase of the process of

  marketization of domestic and care services in all the countries under

  analysis.'
affiliation: 'Picchi, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Rome, Rome, Italy.

  Picchi, Sara, Univ Rome, Rome, Italy.'
author: Picchi, Sara
author-email: sara.picchi@uniroma1.it
author_list:
- family: Picchi
  given: Sara
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.5209/rev\_INFE.2016.v7.n1.52067
files: []
issn: 2171-6080
journal: INVESTIGACIONES FEMINISTAS
keywords: domestic and care services; Italy; Spain; France
keywords-plus: LONG-TERM-CARE; REGIMES; EMPLOYMENT
language: English
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '23'
pages: 169-190
papis_id: d0699bc853ee8ef1a16ca29a26b0f676
ref: Picchi2016elderlycare
researcherid-numbers: Feministas, Investigaciones/AAH-5809-2021
times-cited: '5'
title: The elderly care and domestic services sector during the recent economic crisis.
  The case of Italy, Spain and France
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000407557400010
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
volume: '7'
web-of-science-categories: Women's Studies
year: '2016'