TY - JOUR
T1 - The temporal welfare state
T2 - The case of Finland
AU - Goodin, Robert E.
AU - Parpo, Antti
AU - Kangas, Olli
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. One way of bringing those contributions under a common metric is in terms of 'temporal autonomy': the freedom to spend one's time as one will, outside the necessities of daily life. Using the 1999-2000 Finnish Time Use Survey, we propose ways of operationalising the time that is 'strictly necessary' to spend in paid labour, unpaid household labour and personal care; the residual, 'discretionary time', represents people's temporal autonomy. We measure the impact on that of Finnish taxes, transfers and child care subsidies. In so doing, we calibrate the contributions of Finland's Nordic welfare regime and of its female-friendly gender regime, in ways that correspond to the lived reality of people's daily lives.
AB - Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. One way of bringing those contributions under a common metric is in terms of 'temporal autonomy': the freedom to spend one's time as one will, outside the necessities of daily life. Using the 1999-2000 Finnish Time Use Survey, we propose ways of operationalising the time that is 'strictly necessary' to spend in paid labour, unpaid household labour and personal care; the residual, 'discretionary time', represents people's temporal autonomy. We measure the impact on that of Finnish taxes, transfers and child care subsidies. In so doing, we calibrate the contributions of Finland's Nordic welfare regime and of its female-friendly gender regime, in ways that correspond to the lived reality of people's daily lives.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0047279404007986
DO - 10.1017/S0047279404007986
M3 - Article
SN - 0047-2794
VL - 33
SP - 531
EP - 552
JO - Journal of Social Policy
JF - Journal of Social Policy
IS - 4
ER -