...Niklas Mäkinen Purpose Family policies aimed at reconciling the pressures of family and work shape women's employment outcomes. Yet, very few studies have examined their impact on employment that is not formally registered with authorities. The study aims to investigate whether, and to what extent...

... 23 01 2025 15 04 2025 23 04 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agency Ethnography Social trust Bureaucracy Family policies Social welfare delivery The choice of Denmark and Romania as meaningful cases...

... market policies in Korea have explicitly aimed to support dual-earner couples and protect women's employment status after childbirth. However, the dualistic labour market and remaining female-caregiver norms lead to the polarisation of couples into dual earners and male breadwinners. In family policy...

... was corroborated by Kalwij (2010) , who stated that increases in expenditure on such family policies could also increase completed fertility, in part by facilitating having children at a younger age which creates the possibility of more children being born during a woman’s reproductive period. One of the first...

...Marina Hennig; Birgit Pfau‐Effinger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore 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 welfare‐state family policies, but also differences...