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Female Labour Market Integration in the City of Nantes and Care Policies for Older People: The French Puzzle

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This chapter highlights the connections between care policies for older people and employment policies, and the consequences for women’s integration into the labour market. It demonstrates how an ageing population leads the public actors to promote and develop new jobs to answer the needs of the labour market, in particular for women. By providing employment opportunities for women, local welfare policies for older people meet employment policies. In France, several different levels of government participate in welfare policy making, which makes it a complex puzzle. Furthermore, welfare policy for older people is divided into gerontological and geriatric policies. The complexity of these vertical and horizontal governance structures impacts on local authority actions and decisions taken in the city of Nantes.

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    In Nantes, certain data is only available for the district (LAU2), other data is only for the urban area (LAU1) or else at the departmental level (NUTS3), or even at regional level (NUTS2). Certain national statistics organizations like the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) provide databases at other levels, with respect to specific problems, like the employment zone for questions related to the labour market (according to INSEE, “An employment zone is a geographical space within which most of the working population reside and work, and in which businesses can find most of the necessary workforce to fill the available jobs. […]The current mapping is based on the working population’s home-to-work travel flows observed during the 2006 census”).

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    Law no. 2005-841 dated 26 July 2005 concerning the development of personal services and implementing various measures in favour of social cohesion; Wauquiez Plan or “Plan 2 of personal services development” dated 24 March 2009.

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    Bigoteau et al. (2013). WP6: Women’s Decision-Making: Decision-making on employment and childcare among employed women – Composite Report 1 of Nantes (France), Intermediary report of FLOWS project, MSH Ange-Guépin, Nantes, July.

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    The regional department in charge of business, competition, consumption, labour and employment.

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    Pierre Laroque (1907–1997) is one of the founders of the national Social Security system in France.

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    Law 2002-2 reforming social and medical-social work.

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    Law no. 2009-879 dated 21 July 2009 on hospital reform relative to patients, health and territories.

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    Welfare group for domestic employment.

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    Articles 205–207 of the Civil Code provide for a mutual support obligation between ascendants and descendants. The latter is a material aid due to an ageing parent who is unable to support themself. The amount of the aid varies depending on the means of whoever pays it and the applicant’s needs.

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    Bigoteau et al. (2013). WP 6: Women’s Decision-Making: Decision-making on employment and responses to eldercare needs among employed women – Composite Report 2 of Nantes (France), Intermediary report of FLOWS project, MSH Ange-Guépin, Nantes, July.

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  1. CNRS UMR 6590 ESO, Université de Nantes, Chemin de la censive du Tertre, BP 81227, 44 312, Nantes Cedex 3, France

    Monique Bigoteau & Béatrice Chaudet

  2. Department of Sociology, Université de Nantes, CNRS FRE 3706 CENS, Nantes, France

    Annie Dussuet

  3. MSH Ange Guépin, Université de Nantes, CNRS-USR 3491, Nantes, France

    Carine Péribois

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Bigoteau, M., Chaudet, B., Dussuet, A., Péribois, C. (2015). Female Labour Market Integration in the City of Nantes and Care Policies for Older People: The French Puzzle. In: Kutsar, D., Kuronen, M. (eds) Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16163-1_12

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