Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family … life cycle for different birth cohorts to explore the connection between family and work over time. Our results indicate … that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …

This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within … workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of … employment. We find that employees in this group have stronger feelings of job security and loyalty, which we relate to family …

converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …

causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …