Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

This article provides a comparative analysis of fertility and family transformations and policy responses in Austria … and main family policy trends. Fertility in both countries is relatively low, but not extremely low when compared with the … quarter of century. During this period both societies also grew surprisingly similar in their fertility and family patterns …

family tax policy. The results show that welfare states with familialization tax policies reduce less horizontal income … from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated … family types of non-retiree households. To answer my research aim I draw on harmonized data from 30 countries provided by the …

social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship …Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of … between the two most prominent work-family reconciliation policies (paid parental leave and public childcare coverage) and …

Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade …-offs wherein reduced work–family conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors reconsider these trade-offs by … unpacking these indices and examining specific policy relationships with motherhood-based wage inequality to consider how …