...Claudia Colombarolli; Nicola De Luigi; Giovanni Amerigo Giuliani Purpose This article explores income and territorial inequalities in the uptake of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children aged 0–2 in two contrasting welfare contexts, Italy and Sweden. It investigates...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Ageing Social inequality Labour market exit Labour market attachment Education Sweden (2) PR ( E R i   = 1 )   = f   ( L M   A 1 i , L M   A 2 i , X i ) where...

... Ageing Late-working life Pensions Retirement Sweden J14 H55 With the ageing of population, the impact of pension systems on older workers' retirement has become crucial (Vogel et al., 2017) with reforms increasingly financially and socially sustainable (Väänänen and Liukko...

...Jan Hájek; Cecília Olexová Purpose The paper deals with the child benefits system in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Sweden. Design/methodology/approach The authors describe the systems as the key baseline for subsequent qualitative and quantitative comparison. An essential element...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Parental leave in Sweden can be taken both as paid and unpaid leave and often parents mix these forms in a very flexible way. Therefore, multiple methodological issues arise regarding how to most accurately measure leave length. The purpose of this paper...

...Gavan Titley The paper offers a specific concept to emphasise the generative interconnection between ideology and media form, arguing that “Taboo News” about Sweden is emerging as a predictable commodity in the nascent political economy of radical right media. This media is structured by its...

...Julia Höppner In Sweden, a national legislation for a CFC benefit was introduced in 2008, but it is up to the municipalities to introduce such a benefit or not (Nyberg, 2010). In the second half of 2011, 108 of the 290 Swedish municipalities offered a CFC benefit. The benefit is paid for one...

...Kimberly Creasap © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only This is an ethnographic study based on research conducted in Sweden over a five year period (2007-2012), including several summer research trips and a sustained...

... insight into the societal nexus in which a “hard-to-reach group” of seasonal workers faces potential and actual exploitation. Sweden Bulgaria Frame analysis Internal EU seasonal migrants Roma berry pickers Social movement actors In the summer of 2012, the Swedish viewing public were...

...Mikael Nygård; Fredrik Snellman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the politicisation of age discrimination in relation to the enactment of anti-discrimination legislation in Finland and Sweden in the early-2000s. By showing how politicians constructed the meaning of age...

... in the enlarged Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the ways in which informalisation has come increasingly to typify employment relations both East and West via contrastive case studies from Sweden and Latvia. Findings – The paper illustrates how a growing tendency towards...

...Marina Hennig; Marie Evertsson; Daniela Grunow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de‐familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden, to study whether and how women's career interruptions influence their labour market prospects...

...Marina Hennig; Marina Hennig; Stefan Stuth; Mareike Ebach; Anna Erika Hägglund Purpose 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 Switzerland. The paper seeks...

...Renate Minas; Sharon Wright; Rik van Berkel Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the governance of activation in relation to the decentralization and centralization of activation for social assistance recipients in Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. Design/methodology/approach...

...Leung Lai‐ching; Chan Kam‐wah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the family‐friendly policies developed in Sweden, the UK and Singapore and discuss the implications on family‐friendly policies in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents...

... in the immigrant samples. As such, it was unable to compare feeling of alienation between students with different cultural background. Originality/value As the authors could not identify any studies that specifically address feelings of social alienation among adolescents in Sweden, thus this study is believed...

... Finland Norway Sweden The concept of governance is intrinsically connected to the study of change. The relations between state and society are changing, and as the boundaries between the two become more blurred, governing societal affairs is getting more complex. Governance captures the emerging...

... strengthens or weakens local universalism. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on case studies in six municipalities in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Findings The paper shows that three kinds of organisational characteristics are of relevance for local universalism: the explicitness...

...Jean‐Michel Bonvin; Michael Orton; Steven Gascoigne; Noel Whiteside Purpose Using the example of a project dedicated to labour market re‐activation in major shipyards in Sweden (Gothenburg) in the late 1970s, the purpose of this paper is to examine how integrated employment policies may...

... identifiable structural patterns in their behaviour (e.g. Arnett, 2001 ; Mitchell, 2006). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Adolescents Social values Denmark Sweden Norway Finland In contemporary social life, gender‐specific associations are deeply embedded in the structures...