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Policy and Practice - the relationship between family policy regime and...

AbstractPurpose - The aim of this article is to develop a typology of different family policy systems in Europe and to evaluate their impact on the employment strategy of mothers with care...

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Reconciling work and family life for French mothers in the Sarkozy era:...

AbstractPurpose - To analyse work-family reconciliation policy during the Sarkozy presidency in France, assessing the extent to which Sarkozy’s injunction on the French to ‘work more to earn more’ has...

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WOMEN’S WORK INTERRUPTIONS AND CAREER PROSPECTS IN GERMANY AND SWEDEN

AbstractPurpose - Focusing on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de-familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden (e.g. Esping-Andersen, 1999), we study whether and how women's career...

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Mothers’ employment three years after childbirth in the UK: a longitudinal...

AbstractPurpose - The paper examines whether the social divisions in maternal employment patterns post-childbirth, recorded by earlier studies have persisted for a later cohort of mothers that had a...

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Women's employment in institutional and cultural context

AbstractPurpose - Purpose: This article explores how cross-national differences in the employment rates of women with children under age three can be explained. It argues that not only differences in...

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How do Employed Women Perceive the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life? A...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and...

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Pros and Cons of Family Policies for Mothers’ Labour Market Participation

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The emerging transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia

AbstractPurpose - This article seeks to explain how a transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia has emerged recently as a result of interplays between various national and transnational...

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Institutional care provisions for the aged in Sri Lanka and some reflections...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this article is to - within the specific Sri Lankan figures on ageing within South Asia (comparatively high longlevity and high figures on intergenerational...

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Intergenerational family care for and by older people in Thailand

AbstractPurpose - This study examines inter-generational arrangements in Thailand for personal care provided to older members and provided by them as grandparents to young...

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Rolling back of the state in child care?: Evidence from urban China

AbstractPurpose - The economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen in...

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Care Expectations, Mismatched: State and Family in Contemporary Singapore

AbstractPurpose - In the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for...

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Social and Political Economy of Care in Japan and South Korea

AbstractPurpose - The two East Asian developmental states of Japan and South Korea share very similar familialistic male breadwinner welfare regimes. However, in the recent years, both countries have...

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Making Policy for Care: Experience in Europe and its Implications in Asia

AbstractPurpose - This article provides an overview and analysis of care as a concept and object of policy attention in Europe, mindful especially of the lessons that can be drawn from the European...

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Shifting Boundaries of Care in Asia: Introduction

AbstractPurpose - Asia’s traditional experiences with care provision differ considerably from those of the West given the prevalent family-based social norms about care and policies in this region. In...

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The emerging transitional “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia

AbstractPurpose – This article aims to explain how a transnational “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia has emerged recently as a result of interplays between various national and transnational...

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Institutional care provisions for the aged in Sri Lanka and some reflections...

AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this article is to, within the specific Sri Lankan figures on ageing within South Asia (comparatively high longevity and high figures on intergenerational...

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Inter-generational family care for and by older people in Thailand

AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this study is to examine inter-generational arrangements in Thailand for personal care provided to older members and provided by them as grandparents to young children....

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Rolling back of the state in child care? Evidence from urban China

AbstractPurpose – The economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen in...

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Care expectations, mismatched: state and family in contemporary Singapore

AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family...

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