How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences: a comparison of home care work for older people in Australia and Sweden
How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences: a comparison of home care work for older people in Australia and Sweden
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DOI：
10.1177/0950017015625601
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Mears, Jane
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作者：
Meagher, Gabrielle;Szebehely, Marta;Mears, Jane
本文试图了解一个令人费解的发现：与瑞典的工作人员相比，澳大利亚公共资助的老年人家庭护理工作人员认为，他们能够更好地满足客户的需求，他们的工作场所压力更小，他们的工作负担更轻，更符合他们的家庭和社会承诺。这一发现似乎挑战了比较社会学研究所提出的预期，即澳大利亚的工作质量和护理服务不如瑞典。根据比较制度主义理论和护理研究，分析了两国护理系统的结构和动态，以及 NORDCARE 2005 年在瑞典（n = 166）和澳大利亚 2010 年（n = 318）对家庭护理人员进行的调查结果。两国工作和工作条件的差异可以通过国家机构和高度性别化的部门层面影响的动态相互作用来解释。
This article seeks to understand a puzzling finding: that workers in publicly funded home care for older people in Australia, compared to those in Sweden, feel that they are better able to meet their clients' needs, that their workplaces are less pressed, and that their work is less burdensome and more compatible with their family and social commitments. This finding seems to challenge expectations fostered by comparative sociological research that job quality and care services are inferior in Australia compared to Sweden. Informed by comparative institutionalist theory and care research, the structures and dynamics of the care systems in the two countries are analysed, along with findings from the NORDCARE survey of home care workers conducted in Sweden in 2005 (n=166) and Australia in 2010 (n=318). Differences in the work and working conditions in the two countries are explained by the dynamic interaction of national institutional and highly gendered sector-level effects.