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Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, W. K., Chau, R. C. M., Yu, C., & Ho, G. (2024). Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 44(11/12), 955-973. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2024-0116

Purpose: This article focuses on children’s social quality. Social quality can be understood as the extent to which people can engage in the social, economic, and cultural lives of their communities, under conditions that strengthen their well-being... Read More about Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries.

Using a time conditions framework to explore the impact of government policies on the commodification of public goods and women’s defamilization risks (2023)
Journal Article
Chau, R. C. M., & Yu, S. W. K. (2023). Using a time conditions framework to explore the impact of government policies on the commodification of public goods and women’s defamilization risks. Public Money and Management, 44(4), 317-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2246756

IMPACT: This article offers insight into how the commodification of public goods could affect women’s lives directly and indirectly through its impact on the family. It draws on the experience in Hong Kong of raising policy-makers’ and public sector... Read More about Using a time conditions framework to explore the impact of government policies on the commodification of public goods and women’s defamilization risks.

The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions - 2023 Report (2023)
Report
Chau, R., D'Angelo, A., Steel, L., Alabbas, N., Bunce, C., Cameron, E., & Strange, G. (2023). The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions - 2023 Report. Social Policy Association

Building on the previous two reports in 2011 and 2016, this offers a timely opportunity for Social Policy academics to raise concerns and share insights amid a global crisis and during challenging times for the higher education sector.

The current... Read More about The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions - 2023 Report.

Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries (2023)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W. K., Chau, R. C. M., & Lo, I. P. Y. (2024). Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries. International Social Work, 67(2), 321-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728231165638

This article is intended to explore the link between the study of defamilisation and that of the adult worker model. To meet this purpose, a defamilisation framework for studying issues concerning the adult worker model and defamilisation is develope... Read More about Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries.

Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries (2022)
Journal Article
Lo, I. P. Y., Chau, R. C. M., & Yu, S. W. K. (2022). Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), Article 14637. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214637

This article aims to advance the discussion of government policies for improving women’s work and family life. It focuses on exploring whether it is reasonable to expect that the supported adult worker model will play an important role in guiding gov... Read More about Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries.

Exploring the contributions of concepts of time to pension studies in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
Foster, L., Yu, S. W. K., & Chau, R. C. M. (2023). Exploring the contributions of concepts of time to pension studies in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(9/10), 809-822. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-08-2022-0218

Purpose: This article aims to link discussions of the role of earnings-related pension measures with time in Hong Kong (HK) and the United Kingdom (UK). It presents a new conceptual “time-based framework” to explore two related types of government re... Read More about Exploring the contributions of concepts of time to pension studies in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation (2021)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W. K., Lo, I. P. Y., & Chau, R. C. M. (2021). Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 41(9-10), 979-992. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-04-2020-0135

Purpose – This article explores the link between defamilisation studies and studies of the adult worker model and discusses the mixed implications that government strategies for supporting the adult worker model have for defamilisation. The adult wor... Read More about Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation.

Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan (2021)
Journal Article
Kam, S. W., Foster, L., Chau, R. C. M., & Pun, Y. (2021). Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 33(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2020.1851348

This article discusses the link between familisation measures (to lower the negative consequences of participating in the family as a care-provider) and defamilisation measures (to reduce individual responsibility for providing care in the family), a... Read More about Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan (2020)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W.-K., Chau, C.-M. (., Li, S.-M., & Lee, M.-Y. (. (2021). The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 37(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2020.33

International organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank raise concerns about the financial sustainability issues of pension systems. These issues have attracted increasing attention because of the challenges presented b... Read More about The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan.