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AbstractThe article aims to understand how governments across Europe have modified the regulation of the delivery of cash‐for‐care schemes (CfCs) to dependent older people since the beginning of the century. In our terminology, the regulation of the CfCs delivery defines the norms, rules, and practices that public actors adopt to manage how beneficiaries can use the benefits. To discuss the regulation of CfCs delivery, we employ an original framework that take three analytical dimensions into account: the degrees of freedom in benefits' utilization ("CfCs utilization" dimension), the provision of information/orientation/advices/counselling to older people and families ("professional support" dimension), and the relationship between the delivery of CfCs and the delivery of the other publicly funded long‐term care inputs ("care system" dimension). The analysis adopts a comparative perspective, looking at six countries—Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England. Among various findings, the main one consists in showing that there has been a shared and increased interest in consolidating the regulation of CfCs delivery. This trend has been mostly directed towards the new policy aim of strengthening the professional support, a goal underestimated in the past, when this dimension was not a major topic of both debate and practice concerning CfCs across Europe.

AbstractOver the last two decades, involuntary part-time (IPT) employment has become a more and more pressing issue in Europe, especially in the southern countries, where IPT today constitutes most part-time employment. Using INAPP-PLUS data and different discrete choice model estimations, this paper aims to shed light on the factors that explain the IPT growth in Italy, focusing on what influences the IPT status at the individual, household and labour market levels. The main hypothesis is that what influences the IPT work derive from a combination of workers' individual, household, and job characteristics which may engender limited power during the bargaining process. The empirical results, based on gender-specific models, highlight that characteristics associated with the IPT status significantly changed over time, reporting a convergent path between the gender profiles of IPT employment. However, IPT employment for women still appears to be mainly originated from the gendered division of domestic and care tasks, while this phenomenon seems to be mainly driven by the labour demand side for men.

L'articolo analizza le modalità attuative dei servizi locali nell'implementazione delle recenti misure di contrasto alla povertà intese come livelli essenziali delle prestazioni (Lep). Utilizzando i dati di una recente indagine Inapp sui tre livelli di governo principali rispetto alle misure in esame, ATS - Servizi sociali comunali - CPI, si analizzano i modelli attuativi messi in pratica a livello territoriale. La lettura congiunta delle tre istituzioni coinvolte suggerisce che un approccio di integrazione sistemica nella gestione dei servizi rappresenta un punto di forza anche in ottica Lep. ******* EN: The article analyses how local authorities engaged in implementing measures to fight against poverty in Italy deal with ensuring minimum standards of performance. Using data from a recent Inapp survey, carried out on municipal social services, Local social planning institutions and public employment services, the implementation models put into practice are analysed. The joint analysis of the three different experiences suggests that an integrated management approach constitutes a strength, also, ensuring minimum standards of performance.