... societal context. Despite changing social and economic conditions, the study uncovers a persistent traditional pattern of expectations for adulthood, including aspirations for stable employment and family formation. Research limitations/implications While this research provides valuable insights...

...Ka Ki Chan; Tat Chor Au-Yeung Purpose This research highlights age-specific barriers to employment for older workers and the gap between activation policy design and implementation, focusing on difficulties in extending working life under employment support services. Design/methodology/approach...

... policy developments from a gender perspective. The authors analyse the level, reach and quality of social policy delivery to working-age women across the areas of health policy, social protection and employment policy during 2000–2021. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on qualitative...

...) the needs of various groups under a welfare state with a dual structure and (3) the role of communities in public policy schemes. Pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19) Social welfare Social policy France Poverty Inequality Youth Community Not-for-profits Housing Employment In comparison...

... of employment relations (stable/unstable) but on economic sectors/branches. This article does not, therefore, discuss in general terms what happened to labour market outsiders during the pandemic, but rather focus attention on a specific group of workers who are highly exposed to risks stemming from dualization...

... the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS) (Wang et al., 2018). Specifically, carers making such employment adjustments (i.e. reducing their employment involvement) to balance work and care are likely to experience additional stressors. For instance, spending more time on caring in the long-term leads...

... of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of social networks, and the social capital embedded in them, to secure employment if someone had become unemployed after the age of 50 years and to reveal the process of accessing and mobilising that social capital. A case study of a Scottish labour market...

... large-scale studies in order to design policies which can result in betterment of the society as a whole, benefiting the segment that needs immediate attention from government and society as well. Employment Technology Migration Service sector Productivity Informality The purpose...

... and register data on employment spells over eight years, identifying patterns in employment with latent class growth analyses. Employment Life course Gender Childcare Trajectories Housework It is often difficult to combine work and family; it is a task that requires the negotiation...

... comprehensive and proactive employment-related support measures and further expansion of university education. The purpose of this paper is to use the case of Hong Kong to assess the equalisation and individualization claim of the risk society approach to studying experience and coping of employment risks...

...Caroline Murphy; Thomas Turner The research suggests that employment policies advocating increased labour participation, delaying retirement and treating informal care as a form of welfare are at odds with LTC strategies which encourage informal care. Furthermore, the latter policy acts...

...Rense Nieuwenhuis; Ariana Need; Henk Van der Kolk The authors found that in countries with short periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap is smaller than in countries with no childcare leave, while in countries with long periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap...

... of the educated in Egypt, young people express a great appreciation of work in the government, for virtually being the only employer offering job stability and social security in the labour market. Research limitations/implications – This paper addresses a gap in the literature on youth employment in Egypt...

... making paid employment illegal for asylum seekers, and in the process making the government liable for the living costs of such individuals – creating a situation of forced welfare dependency. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a review...

...Dr Anjula Gurtoo; Reji Edakkandi Meethal Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether public-private partnerships (PPPs) in skill building and employability training have or were able to contribute making quality skill training and employability services accessible at affordable...

... in larger companies where employers have adopted a strategic approach to work‐family issues. In these larger firms, work‐family policies have been assessed and reorganized as a result of an increasing concern for workplace performance and efficiency. In this regard, resilience to the crisis in workplace...

... bodies play an important role in the promotion of father‐friendly employment measures even in countries with strong male breadwinner cultures. Originality/value This policy analysis extends scholarship on how societies promote and regulate cultural constructions of fatherhood in families...

.... 26). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United Kingdom Social policy Government policy Industrial citizenship Trade unions Employment Marshall Marshall (1992) introduced the concept of industrial citizenship in his account of the relationship between citizenship...

... process. Findings The change in employment policy away from work‐sharing and towards activation of previously economically‐inactive groups has influenced work‐family reconciliation policy in that both incentive measures (creation of more collective and subsidised childcare places) and coercive...

...Marina Hennig; Thomas P. Boje; Anders Ejrnæs Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of different family policy systems in Europe and evaluate their impact on the employment strategy of mothers with care responsibilities for dependent children. Design/methodology/approach...