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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"family policies"”.
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The Comparative Impact of Family Policies in Sweden and Japan
What impact do family policies have on women's ability to have a family and participate in the labor market? Drawing on two cases, Japan and Sweden, I will identify different patterns of family policies' impact on fertility rates and women's participation in the labor market. Comparing the …
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Examining work-family practice use and employee attitudes in a New Zealand local government organisation
Work-family practices have proliferated in response to major changes in the workplace, including the increased participation rates of women and mothers, the rise in dual-career families and single parent families, and growth in the elderly population. These changes are seen as providing employees …
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Modernisation and changing family structure in Korea.
… have been both causes and consequence of the family changes of the modernisation process of the last few decades. Part II comprising four chapters examines the result of the socio-economic change or modernisation of the last four decades in the family field : a review of the traditional family …
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The new politics of welfare in post-socialist Central Eastern Europe
… of universality of social benefits, active policies, effective redistribution, wage-based financing of social programs, benefit levels and familization. Cross-country variation has occurred in spite of the common experiences of opening their economies to international competition and in …
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Paramos šeimai politika Lietuvoje ir vienų motinų šeimos /
… is one of the most common and the poorest family type in Lithuania. The literature analysis shows that single mother families’ poverty is mostly determined by socio-political conditions. Therefore, the research of the dissertation intended to reveal the reasons that determine the …
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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
… of employers and only a few states offer Paid Family Leave benefits. The FMLA was established to protect workers from losing their jobs in case they needed to care for an elderly person or for their children. However, since value is not placed in family structures there has not been much …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
Welfare states and policies have changed greatly over the past decades, mostly characterized by retrenchments in terms of government spending or in terms of restricted access to certain benefits. In the area of family policies, however, a lot of countries have simultaneously expanded provisions and …
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The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Responsible Fatherhood Policies
… legislation bridges the gap between two explicit family policies in order to serve fathers: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 and the Child Support Enforcement Act of 1975. Historically, these two polices have been racialized and discourse …
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"Problem families" and the post-war welfare state in the North West of England, 1943-74
… Centre for rehabilitation as a ‘problem family’ from 1943 to 1970. The North West provides a regional and local focus, as statutory and voluntary organisations operating within the county and boroughs council boundaries of Lancashire and Cheshire sent 1,196 of the 1,817 cases, permitting …
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Geringfügige Beschäftigung und haushaltsnahe Dienstleistungen im Spannungsfeld von Familien- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik : Schaffung eines Frauenarbeitsmarktes im Niedriglohnsektor oder Lösung des Vereinbarkeitsdilemmas? ; Eine Analyse am Beispiel des 2. Gesetzes für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt und des Familienleistungsgesetzes
… Wohlfahrtsstaatforschung zugrunde, dass Policies familialisierende und defamilialisierende Wirkungen haben können. Auf Grundlage dieses Rahmens werden zwei Gesetze und deren gleichstellungspolitische Wirkung analysiert (Familienleistungsgesetz und 2. Gesetz für moderne Dienstleistungen am …