Private commodity or public good?

Childcare businesses as social enterprises

Seminar presentations: Social enterprise as a business model with primarily social objectives has received much attention of late as a potential engine of ...

Why public early childhood education and care?

Description: The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), along with its partner advocates, has long opposed privatization in child care. CUPE believes p ...

Early child learning and care in Canada: Who rules? Who...

Description:The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the most appropriate framework fordeveloping and sustaining a pan-Canadian early child ...

Social capital and local governance regimes: Early chil...

Introduction:The concept of social capital has received enormous attention in the social sciences and beyond.Researchers have shown a particular interest i ...

Neo-conservatism and child care services in Alberta: A ...

Description:This paper traces the post-war development of child care services in Alberta in a historical context and details the power mechanisms employed ...

The nonprofit/for-profit continuum: Theorizing the dyna...

Abstract:A growing body of research has emerged on “mixed-form” markets—markets for goodsand services in which for-profit, nonprofit, and government ...

Public versus private provision of daycare: An experime...

Abstract:This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care withinthe Nordic system of universal provision of public ca ...

Change, choice and cash in social care policies: Some l...

Excerpt from introduction:In this paper we will discuss how the value placed on increasing ‘choice’ is a major factordetermining both childcare and eld ...

Does community-governed nonprofit primary care improve ...

Abstract:This study compared community-governed nonprofit and for-profit primary care practices in New Zealand to test two hypotheses: (1) nonprofits reduc ...

As easy as ABC? Learning to organize private child care...

Abstract:This article examines the emergence of privatized child care in Australia and the effortsof one trade union to organize previously unorganized chi ...

The "production" of child care: How labor markets shape...

Abstract:This article examines child care policies in three countries- France, Sweden, and the United States- to explore the links between labor markets an ...

Nonprofit sector and part-time work: An analysis of emp...

Abstract:This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence andthe extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensat ...

The impact of market forces on the provision of childca...

Description:This paper examines the impact of the introduction of market forces on the provision of childcare in the Netherlands. In January 2005, the Du ...

Private sector can meet child care demands

Excerpts from article: "[The author argues that] government policies can lead to an inefficient allocation of resources within the licenced child care sec ...

Public or private responsibility? Early childhood educa...

Abstract:Although early childhood education and care provision (ECEC) is increasing in all the industrialized welfare states, institutional arrangements fo ...

For-profit early childhood education and care in Sub-Sa...

This seminar is the fourth in the ICMEC international seminar series 2007/2008. This seminar was organized in partnership with the Overseas Development Ins ...

Altruistic nonprofit firms in competitive markets: The ...

Abstract:Day care for young children is provided in the United States by a wide range of individuals and organizations, both for-profit and nonprofit, publ ...

Child care moratorium

Early childhood education markets and democratic experi...

Bringing politics into the nursery