This chapter compares Canadian policies for families with children under the age of three with policies available in eight other affluent countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US), three from each of Esping-Andersen's 'three worlds' of welfare capitalism....

This paper aims at identifying the conditions which drive successful family policy. Therefore, it is necessary to know the economic and sociodemographic situation of families which is investigated in eight OECD countries. Special attention is drawn to income, education and labor supply of the...

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four years old 80 percent of mothers are working full-time...

Working time flexibility is a potentially important lever to foster the reconciliation of work, family, and private life. Giving workers greater autonomy and more control over their working times could empower them to better balance their work and non-work demands. This could then in turn lead...

The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional arrangements, which both vary greatly across European countries. Using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) 1994-2001 for Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which...

We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women?s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In both countries, the labour force attachment of mothers is high, and more than 90% of the women return to work after childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and...

Ein Vergleich der Umverteilungswirkungen der steuerlichen Familienförderung in Deutschland und Frankreich auf Basis von Mikrodaten zeigt, dass die Umverteilung in Deutschland eine größere Dimension hat als in Frankreich. Dies gilt sowohl für die Umverteilung zwischen Haushalten...