Sam Mohun Himmelweit @_SamMH_
Lecturer in Social Policy @UoBrisSPS. PhD @LSESocialPolicy Research on: comparative family policy, labour market inequalities, ideas, continuity and change. Joined February 2022-
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Everyone should read this: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
Our January '24 issue is out!👉t.ly/09NJ8 W/@LCJacobs89 @AnnReinl @s_wallaschek @fabiogrogu @pedrolourenco @villenaoliver @LucenaDelio @DeMicheli_David @w_k_taylor @_johnkenny @shawnwdonnelly @BasakTaraktas @berkesen @SungHeeLee1002 @_SamMH_ @BruceEdmonds @anja_osei
If you leave a job without "good reason" in the UK, you are sanctioned 100% of unemployment benefits for 90 days. Here are some examples of things that do not constitute a "good reason" to leave a job (from the official handbook for DWP decision-makers):
Graph showing benefit from the government's new childcare entitlements by income. We're moving far away from early years provision being about both care and education, with the poorest children being locked out of most state funded provision - and little discussion about it.
This week saw the appointment of the fourth Children’s Minister in the last 12 months. IFS Associate Director @ckfarquharson outlines three challenges facing the new minister. ifs.org.uk/articles/three…
My review in @spaajournal of the Research Handbook on Leave Policy, edited by @IvanaDobrotic, @_sonjablum and Alison Koslowski, is now online. Available at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…
Fingers crossed this is true. Feels like there’s a real opportunity here
Labour’s childcare plans ‘have not been cut back and will be on scale of NHS’ independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Looks like the shift in government thinking on the early years being largely childcare (rather than also importantly early education) is going to staff qualification levels too. They're consulting on several ways to water down qualification requirements -
According to the OBR the childcare changes will have "by far" the largest impact on growth. Yet the tax giveaway in the budget to the biggest companies costs twice as much as the new investment in childcare. 🤔
...and leave for fathers as separate from this policy goal, more associated with providing fathers with 'choice' rather than to do with behaviours at home. I explain this difference through different political contexts during the reforms and the impact of policy legacies. (4/4)
In Germany, fathers' leave was seen as crucial in improving work-family reconciliation for mothers: shifting the burden of unpaid care in the household was viewed as important. In the UK, work-family reconciliation was seen as primarily an employment issue for mothers... (3/4)
Very pleased to see this published online today: 'Shifting worlds of father politics? Comparing path-departing change in paternity and parental leave policy in Germany and the UK' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (1/4)
This paper will be part of an exciting special issue of @spaajournal on education policies in knowledge economies alongside many excellent articles. The introduction is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…
Arguing that both countries have faced 'twin pressures' from firms' changing skills needs and ambitious parents, we find Germany has been more successful than Korea in mediating these pressures and the resulting inclusion/efficiency tensions.
Very pleased that my new article with Timo Fleckenstein and Soohyun Christine Lee is published online in @spaajournal. It compares reforms to education and training policies in Germany and South Korea in the shift towards the knowledge economy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
New🙌 Studying education reforms in 🇩🇪 & 🇰🇷, Fleckenstein, Lee & @_SamMH_ analyse government capacity to reconcile efficiency & inclusion, in the context of twin pressures from firms (changing skills needs) & parents (high aspirations for their children). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Children are a bigger deal for some than others
These covers are three weeks apart
love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is
I am beginning to wonder if Truss-o-monics is really just "We know we are on our way out so let's take the last of what's left on the way out the door!"
Almost two-thirds of the personal tax cut gains go to the richest fifth of households, who will be better-off on average by £3,090 next year. Strikingly, almost half will go to the richest 5 per cent, while the poorest half of households will gain just £230 on average next year.
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