Les mesures d'aide à la conciliation de la vie familiale et de la vie professionnelle proposées par les employeurs prennent plus fréquemment la forme de contributions financières que d'aides en nature. Elles sont d'autant plus répandues qu'elles sont ponctuelles. Ainsi les crèches...

This paper investigates domestic sphere investments of spouses in two consecutive relationships and aims to identify potential sources of variation. Economic reasoning would predict a learning effect from one partnership to the next, e.g., the anticipation of lost marital investments in case of...

Paid parental leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades with the growing participation of mothers in the workforce. Indeed, the average number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries increased from 17 in 1980 to 48 weeks by 2011, but with very large cross-country...

Despite the increasing prevalence of dual-earner couples, women still perform the bulk of domestic and parental tasks within the household. In this paper, we investigate the role of the parental model in the persistence of this gender inequality. We study the possible correlation between the...

Employers' family-friendly policies generally take the form of financial support rather than benefits in kind. Occasional benefits and services are much more common than those granted on a regular basis. Corporate day care centres are still very rare, for example, despite the fact that employers...

Children born early in the year are more likely to get a place in collective daycare than those born inthe autumn. Places are allocated equally, however to boys and girls, and to children of biological oradoptive parents. Third children more frequently get a place in collective daycare than...

Les enfants nés en début d'année ont plus de chance d'être accueillis en crèche que ceux nés à l'automne. En revanche,il n'y a pas de différences entre filles et garçons ni entre enfants biologiques et enfants adoptés. Les enfants qui sont les troisièmes de leur famille sont plus...

Au cours des 25 dernières années, les hommes se sont davantage impliqués dans l'éducation des enfants, tandis que leur participation dans les autres tâches domestiques est restée stable. Les femmes ont également consacré davantage de temps aux activités parentales mais sensiblement...