Work-family policies and the effects of children on women's employment hours and wages

Misra, Joya; Budig, Michelle J.; Boeckmann, Irene

doi:10.1080/13668803.2011.571396

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“…Dependent children in the household decrease women's working hours (e.g. Paull, 2008;Misra et al, 2011) as does partner's income (Bernardi, 1999). However, the evidence is more complex when several indicators of within couple inequalities are simultaneously analysed.…”

Section: How Might Family Dynamics Influence Women's Market Outcomes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

Dieckhoff

Gash

Mertens

et al. 2016

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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Section: How Might Family Dynamics Influence Women's Market Outcomes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

Dieckhoff

Gash

Mertens

et al. 2016

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Policies on parental leave and childcare services are two sides of the same coin (Misra et al, 2010). Parents can view and experience them as a 'package' that constrains their options following childbirth.…”

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“…These have various implications, one being the disruption of female employment following childbirth (e.g. Gornick and Meyers, 2003;Misra et al, 2010). To illustrate, parental leave may come with penalties, including job loss or discriminatory treatment in pay and promotion.…”

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Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism

Javornik

2014

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article offers a methodology to reveal the latent constructs which underlie policies on parental leave and childcare services. It is constructed to uncover the state assumptions about social organisation of childcare and gender roles in a country-comparative perspective. Legal regulations are central to this analysis, and combinations of policy components take centre stage. An index of state de-familialism isproposed and its analytical potential tested on eight post-socialist EU states. Grounded in Leitner's (2003) conceptualisation of familialism, it gauges three policy types: (1) Slovenian and Lithuanian supported defamilialism incentivises women's continuous employment and active fatherhood, (2) explicit familialism in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Estonia supports familial childcare and reinforces gendered parenting, and (3) implicit familialism in Poland, Slovakia, and Latvia leaves parents without public support. These groups share core characteristics with developed welfare-state regimes. This methodology has the potential to discredit claims of post-socialist exceptionalism and allows researchers to test new hypotheses.

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“…The universal design of services should facilitate employment among all women, although there is evidence that the provision of public day care differentially affects women by educational attainment (Korpi et al, 2013, Keck and Saraceno, 2013, Pettit and Hook, 2009). Overall, however, public care supports high levels of women's employment (Misra et al, 2011).…”

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Incorporating ‘class’ into work–family arrangements: Insights from and for Three Worlds

Hook

2015

Journal of European Social Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Insights from and for Three Worlds AbstractIn response to feminist critics, Esping-Andersen (1999) added family to the state-market nexus by examining the degree of familialism across regimes. In the absence of the state defamilializing care, however, it is difficult to predict work-family arrangements without reference to the overall level of inequality and a family's social location within it. Thus, levels of familialism interact with levels of economic inequality. I build on existing categorizations of how two-parent families combine work and care in European countries by adding an explicit consideration of how these patterns vary within countries by education. I utilize hierarchical clustering with data for 16 countries (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) from the Luxembourg Income Study and the European Social Survey. In some respects, refining country averages by education lends greater support to the tenets of Three Worlds, but also reveals a Southern European pattern distinguished by inequality in work-family arrangements more characteristic of liberal regimes. Findings also illustrate how countries that polarize between dual full-time and male breadwinner families largely polarize by education.

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Work-family policies and the effects of children on women's employment hours and wages

Cited by 144 publications

References 26 publications

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism

Incorporating ‘class’ into work–family arrangements: Insights from and for Three Worlds

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