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Does social investment make the labour market ‘flow’? Family policies and institutional complementarities in Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea
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Ijin Hong and Jieun Lee
Published: 26 February 2021
... labour market dualisation single parents social investments labour market flow work family female labour market female employment institutional configurations social investment reform institutional reform Social investment policies have gained prominence in policy-making reforms and concerned...
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Hungary and Slovenia: long leave or short?
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Marta Korintus and Nada Stropnik
Published: 19 January 2011
... the socialist years, before 1989, there were high levels of employment in Hungary. However, today, female labour force participation rates are low compared with the EU average. In Slovenia, for decades, women accounted for forty-five per cent of the workforce, children below three years of age were...
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Cash and care: Policy challenges in the welfare state
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Caroline Glendinning (ed.) and Peter A. Kemp (ed.)
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 25 September 2006
... forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, access to credit, and money management. It provides an analysis of childcare and informal support for sick, disabled, or elderly people in the context of increasing female labour market participation and the introduction of cash allowances to pay for care...
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3 East Asian welfare regimes
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Ruby C. M. Chau and Sam W. K. Yu
Published: 29 July 2022
... productivism Shinkawa T United Kingdom UK United Nations UN Wen Z Y infant mortality rates life expectancy maternal mortality rate Germany Hungary Italy Sweden Switzerland Koslowski A life mix ECEC Culturalist perspective East Asian welfare regimes Education Female labour participation...