...Martin Gurín Purpose Family policy is an area where policy transfer has garnered a lot of attention lately. A growing body of research demonstrates policymakers' interest in and willingness to adopt foreign family policies. However, previous studies have tended to neglect the second mechanism...

... workload using direct and indirect sociological tools; moreover – based on such assessments – this method allows studying the parents' attitude to possible transformations of the parental leave system in Russia. Family policy Parental leave Involvement of fathers Parental leave policy Paternity...

... of searching for alternative concepts, namely economic defamilisation, for guiding pension reforms. Adult worker model Defamilisation Pension Family policy This article is concerned with the link between the studies of defamilisation and the studies of the adult worker model. Both types...

... on the effect of policies on the take-up of the CFC benefit, this study shows that parents’ attitudes and behaviour are important explanatory variables to explain differences in the take-up of the benefit. Sweden Norway Family policy Cash-for-childcare Take-up The introduction of a cash...

... European countries, should be more sensitive to children’s age. Childcare benefit Familialism Family policy Maternal employment Parental leave Throughout the entire group of OECD countries, a relatively strong positive linear correlation exists (r²=0.4, p<0.05...

...Abigail Gregory; Susan Milner; Jan Windebank; Barbara Pocock; Sara Charlesworth; Janine Chapman Purpose This paper aims to explore recent changes in Australia's work‐family policies and programs and their implications for gender (in)equality. Design/methodology/approach The authors critically...

... and public responsibilities; shifting gender relations; and shifting demographic and inter‐generational relations. Mary Daly can be contacted at: m.daly@qub.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Europe Care European welfare states Policy reform Family policy Gender...