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This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a … comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of … work and care are analyzed based on a comprehensive data collection. Although an ongoing trend towards the support of the …
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In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last 40 years. I review theoretical explanations for...
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sophisticated methods of allocating people to jobs to model the impact of public investment in care on the gender employment gap and …This paper discusses new methods of combined macro-micro analysis of labor demand and supply to investigate the gender … other inequality measures. It presents some results of a cross-country comparison of investment in the care and construction …
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-biased distribution of care responsibilities. Pollution brings to evidence gender inequalities in care and, given the gendered nature of … care and the geographic distribution of pollution, may contribute to enhance gender and geographic labour market …, see double the gender difference in working hours. It is hypothesised that children, unable to go to school, must stay …
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