The prospects for caring: economic theory and policy analysis
分析了关怀的三个特征(关系发展、责任与需求不平等、社会规范影响),探讨关怀在无偿与有偿经济间的转移,并据此预测关怀规范演变及政策干预方向。
This paper examines three distinguishing features of caring: that it involves the development of a relationship, that caring responsibilities and needs are unequally distributed and that social norms influence the allocation of care and caring responsibilities, to draw out their implications for analysing caring and its movement between unpaid and paid economies. Rising opportunity costs of caring are found to produce pressures experienced in different ways across different sectors of the economy. These, coupled with inequalities in care responsibilities and labour market opportunities, influence the movement of care between paid and unpaid economies. This analysis is then used to examine the likely evolution of caring norms and practices and how policy might intervene to avoid an uncaring future.