The UK has introduced an unusual right for parents of young children to be able to request a change to their working arrangements, and an obligation on employers to consider such requests seriously. This paper examines why such a right was adopted in the UK, and assesses its impact. Different...

In this paper, I shall look at some ways in which models of individual behaviour might be constructed to take account of caring behaviour. I shall argue that those models that use just small modifications of rational choice theory do not go far enough away from the parent theory theory to be...