Mit dem Gesetz zum Ausbau der Tagesbetreuung für Kinder will die Bundesregierung dazu beitragen, die Betreuung bis zum Jahre 2010 qualitativ und quantitativ an westeuropäische Standards heranzuführen. Allerdings ist das Angebot an Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen vorrangig kommunale Aufgabe....

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...

Das Thema "Kinderlosigkeit" wurde im letzten Jahr immer wieder im Zusammenhang mit einer statistischen Angabe diskutiert: Danach bleiben gegenwärtig etwa 40 % der Akademikerinnen in Deutschland kinderlos. Aktuelle Analysen weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass der Anteil kinderloser...

This paper is motivated by the fact that even though most advanced economies have experienced similar changes in family structure and in the structure of their labor markets during the past two decades, their child poverty rates vary dramatically, from less than 3 percent to more than 20...

Childhood in an underdeveloped environment is a stage of life very likely to be overshadowed by poverty. The main aim of this study is to look at the development of child poverty in the comparative angle. The study seeks to detect connections between child poverty and the implemented family...

The purpose of the paper is to find out what kind of impact different structural factors have on the one hand, poverty and, on the other hand, income transfers. These structural factors have been operationalised as changes in economy, employment and demography. The countries under comparison...

Children do not control their socio-economic situation; they benefit or suffer from their parents' situation. In north European countries major social transfer schemes, depending on the presence of dependent children, answer to multiple objectives (birth rate support, reduced inequality in the...

Constructing typologies or categories of welfare states characterized social policy research during the last decade. Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) launched an avalanche of typologies. Interest in cross-national comparisons has been facilitated by several attempts to...

Up to the 1990s the development of family policy was an integral part of the success story of the Nordic welfare state. This article aims to evaluate the impact of legislative amendments to family policy at the micro-level in Sweden and Finland during the 1990s. We follow the micro-level...