Reconciling Work And Family Responsibilities

Author : Catherine Hein
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221153528
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Work and Family Responsibilities written by Catherine Hein and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at and synthesizes the experience of governments, employers and trade unions in various countries.

Author : Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Work and Family Life in EU Law and Policy written by Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically assesses the policy and legislative framework for the reconciliation of work and family life at EU level, and proposes a new way of looking at this complex set of issues based in what the realities are for working families.

Author : Janet C. Gornick
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610442512
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families That Work written by Janet C. Gornick and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically different social and labor market policies—policies that vary widely in the level of support they provide for parents and the extent to which they encourage an equal division of labor between parents as they balance work and care. In Families That Work, Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers take a close look at the work-family policies in the United States and abroad and call for a new and expanded role for the U.S. government in order to bring this country up to the standards taken for granted in many other Western nations. In many countries in Europe and in Canada, family leave policies grant parents paid time off to care for their young children, and labor market regulations go a long way toward ensuring that work does not overwhelm family obligations. In addition, early childhood education and care programs guarantee access to high-quality care for their children. In most of these countries, policies encourage gender equality by strengthening mothers' ties to employment and encouraging fathers to spend more time caregiving at home. In sharp contrast, Gornick and Meyers show how in the United States—an economy with high labor force participation among both fathers and mothers—parents are left to craft private solutions to the society-wide dilemma of "who will care for the children?" Parents—overwhelmingly mothers—must loosen their ties to the workplace to care for their children; workers are forced to negotiate with their employers, often unsuccessfully, for family leave and reduced work schedules; and parents must purchase care of dubious quality, at high prices, from consumer markets. By leaving child care solutions up to hard-pressed working parents, these private solutions exact a high price in terms of gender inequality in the workplace and at home, family stress and economic insecurity, and—not least—child well-being. Gornick and Meyers show that it is possible–based on the experiences of other countries—to enhance child well-being and to increase gender equality by promoting more extensive and egalitarian family leave, work-time, and child care policies. Families That Work demonstrates convincingly that the United States has much to learn from policies in Europe and in Canada, and that the often-repeated claim that the United States is simply "too different" to draw lessons from other countries is based largely on misperceptions about policies in other countries and about the possibility of policy expansion in the United States.

Author : Kröger, Teppo
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447320476
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combining Paid Work and Family Care written by Kröger, Teppo and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.

Author : A. Masselot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230246680
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Work and Family Life in EU Law and Policy written by A. Masselot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its timid introduction onto the EC agenda in 1974, reconciliation of work and family life has developed into a fully-articulated principle. This book explores this journey and its implications for the EC legal order and society. It argues that as reconciliation issues continue to evolve they require constant reassessment.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264032479
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life A Synthesis of Findings for OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesises the finding of the 13 individual country reviews published previously and extends the scope to include other OECD countries, examining tax/benefit policies, parental leave systems, child care support, and workplace practices.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264104208
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Volume 2) Austria, Ireland and Japan written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD study considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policies, and employment and workplace practices, help determine parental labour market outcomes and family formation in Austria, Ireland and Japan.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264108351
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Volume 3) New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD study, part of a series on OECD countries, considers how a tax/benefit and childcare policies and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation in New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264161139
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Volume 1) Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first OECD review of the reconciliation of work and family life looks at the challenges parents of young children confront when trying to square their work and care commitments, and the implications for social and labour market trends.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264009299
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Volume 4) Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, part of a series on OECD countries, considers how a tax/benefit and childcare policies and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation in Canada, Finland, Sweden and the UK.