Policy and Practice - the relationship between family policy regime and...
AbstractPurpose - The aim of this article is to develop a typology of different family policy systems in Europe and to evaluate their impact on the employment strategy of mothers with care...
View ArticleReconciling work and family life for French mothers in the Sarkozy era:...
AbstractPurpose - To analyse work-family reconciliation policy during the Sarkozy presidency in France, assessing the extent to which Sarkozy’s injunction on the French to ‘work more to earn more’ has...
View ArticleWOMEN’S WORK INTERRUPTIONS AND CAREER PROSPECTS IN GERMANY AND SWEDEN
AbstractPurpose - Focusing on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de-familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden (e.g. Esping-Andersen, 1999), we study whether and how women's career...
View ArticleMothers’ employment three years after childbirth in the UK: a longitudinal...
AbstractPurpose - The paper examines whether the social divisions in maternal employment patterns post-childbirth, recorded by earlier studies have persisted for a later cohort of mothers that had a...
View ArticleWomen's employment in institutional and cultural context
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: This article explores how cross-national differences in the employment rates of women with children under age three can be explained. It argues that not only differences in...
View ArticleHow do Employed Women Perceive the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life? A...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and...
View ArticlePros and Cons of Family Policies for Mothers’ Labour Market Participation
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View ArticleThe emerging transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia
AbstractPurpose - This article seeks to explain how a transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia has emerged recently as a result of interplays between various national and transnational...
View ArticleInstitutional care provisions for the aged in Sri Lanka and some reflections...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this article is to - within the specific Sri Lankan figures on ageing within South Asia (comparatively high longlevity and high figures on intergenerational...
View ArticleIntergenerational family care for and by older people in Thailand
AbstractPurpose - This study examines inter-generational arrangements in Thailand for personal care provided to older members and provided by them as grandparents to young...
View ArticleRolling back of the state in child care?: Evidence from urban China
AbstractPurpose - The economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen in...
View ArticleCare Expectations, Mismatched: State and Family in Contemporary Singapore
AbstractPurpose - In the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for...
View ArticleSocial and Political Economy of Care in Japan and South Korea
AbstractPurpose - The two East Asian developmental states of Japan and South Korea share very similar familialistic male breadwinner welfare regimes. However, in the recent years, both countries have...
View ArticleMaking Policy for Care: Experience in Europe and its Implications in Asia
AbstractPurpose - This article provides an overview and analysis of care as a concept and object of policy attention in Europe, mindful especially of the lessons that can be drawn from the European...
View ArticleShifting Boundaries of Care in Asia: Introduction
AbstractPurpose - Asia’s traditional experiences with care provision differ considerably from those of the West given the prevalent family-based social norms about care and policies in this region. In...
View ArticleThe emerging transitional “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia
AbstractPurpose – This article aims to explain how a transnational “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia has emerged recently as a result of interplays between various national and transnational...
View ArticleInstitutional care provisions for the aged in Sri Lanka and some reflections...
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this article is to, within the specific Sri Lankan figures on ageing within South Asia (comparatively high longevity and high figures on intergenerational...
View ArticleInter-generational family care for and by older people in Thailand
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this study is to examine inter-generational arrangements in Thailand for personal care provided to older members and provided by them as grandparents to young children....
View ArticleRolling back of the state in child care? Evidence from urban China
AbstractPurpose – The economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen in...
View ArticleCare expectations, mismatched: state and family in contemporary Singapore
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family...
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