principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women?s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In … childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and share the same type of welfare state ideology, but differ remarkably in … mothers? behaviour compared to Danish women. We explain this finding by the fact that family-friendly policies in Sweden have …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …

Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …

division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …

-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …