In recent years Austrian family policy was aimed at improving individual work-life balances and increasing the participation of fathers. This included introducing child care benefit months that cannot be transferred between partners, adding a short-term income-dependent option to the original...

Family policies vary considerably, in their focus as much as in the instruments used, in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, the countries chosen for the study. Germany's traditional type of family policy was fundamentally rehauled in recent years in order to boost female...

This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation and ultimately the current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in...

The aggregate fiscal burden of all family-supporting fiscal programs in Germany amounts to 321.1 bill. DM in 2000 and to 328.1 bill. DM in 2001. These amounts increase to 345.0 bill. DM (353.4 bill. DM) if payments for educational support and expenditures to universities for educational purposes...