Many European countries have implemented policies to revive their domestic service sectors. A common goal of these reforms has been to create employment for disadvantaged groups on the labor market. I study Sweden, where a 50% tax deduction on labor costs for domestic services was introduced in...

Using a mixed-methods approach of telephone survey and in-depth interviews with stakeholders and women workers, this study aims to assess the impact that the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown had on women domestic workers and map the way their situation changed once the lockdown was lifted....

The severity of COVID-19 has led the government of India to impose one of the stringent lockdown and quarantine measure in the world. India is under a national lockdown since 25 March 2020 in order to maintain ‘social distancing’ to control the spread of the disease which has resulted in...

Die Förderung haushaltsnaher Dienstleistungen wird bereits seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre als familienpolitisches Instrument diskutiert. Während sich in Bezug auf die Kindererziehung mit dem Kinderbetreuungsausbau sowie der Reform von Elternzeit und Elterngeld ein Paradigmenwechsel in der...