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      <title>Work/care policies in European welfare states: Continuing variety or change towards a common model?</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57645</link>
      <description>Title: Work/care policies in European welfare states: Continuing variety or change towards a common model?
Authors: Blome, Agnes
Abstract: This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of different welfare states and whether this has changed over time. In particular the development of leave regulations and working time policies, the provision of childcare, child allowances and types of taxation schemes which favor the reconciliation of work and care are analyzed based on a comprehensive data collection. Although an ongoing trend towards the support of the dual-earner model is clearly visible in the data, countries still differ in the current extent of work/care reconciliation policies and the pace and timing of political reforms. Moreover, hardly any country fits an ideal type of an entirely coherent policy. Different countries prioritize certain instruments over others, irrespective of the notion they have of any specific work/care arrangement.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The relative importance of social and cultural capital for educational performance: Eastern versus Western Europe</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57646</link>
      <description>Title: The relative importance of social and cultural capital for educational performance: Eastern versus Western Europe
Authors: Prokic-Breuer, Tijana</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2011-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The impact of cohabitation without marriage on intergenerational contacts: A test of the diffusion theory</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57648</link>
      <description>Title: The impact of cohabitation without marriage on intergenerational contacts: A test of the diffusion theory
Authors: Nazio, Tiziana; Saraceno, Chiara
Abstract: In the literature, cohabitation rather than marriage is presented as an indicator of weakening intergenerational ties, either as a cause or an effect. In this paper we compare the frequency of face to face and phone contacts between parents and their married and unmarried children living with a partner in two countries - Italy and the UK - where the incidence of cohabiting instead of, or before, marrying is very different. Our analysis of empirical evidence, based on an ordered category response multilevel model, does not support the hypothesis that in Italy, where cohabitation is still an exception, differences in parent-adult children contacts between cohabitant and married children are much greater than in the UK, where cohabitation is more common and since a longer time. While in the UK cohabitation does not seem to have an impact on frequency of contacts, in Italy, cohabitation only increases the (marginal) proportion of those who do not visit and lowers slightly that of those who visit on a daily basis against weekly or monthly, but not the frequency of phone contacts. Also the hypothesis that duration of cohabitation makes a difference is not supported. The main difference we found is that cohabitant couples in Italy have a slight tendency to live farther away from their parents than married ones. This affects frequency of face to face contacts. These findings support the thesis that in both countries cohabitation and marriage are becoming increasingly similarly accepted patterns of partnership formation, which do not affect in distinct ways intergenerational relationships, although the differential residential choices of married and cohabitant couples in Italy remains an issue to be explained. Findings also support the thesis that, in Italy, cohabiting instead of marrying is still to some extent a polarized phenomenon: in the majority of cases it is supported, if not rendered possible, by parents, while in a small minority it is accompanied by estrangement.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Balancing elderly care and employment in Germany</title>
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      <description>Title: Balancing elderly care and employment in Germany
Authors: Keck, Wolfgang; Saraceno, Chiara
Abstract: In this report, we investigate the situation of workers who also care for an elderly parent in Germany. The study is based on qualitative, in depth interviews with care givers who are at least part time employed. The interviews aimed at detecting constrains and resources available to workers with caring responsibilities in the second half of their working life to deal with their multiple responsibilities and demands on their time and attention. This report is one of a series of national reports on the same issue, which are all part of the project "Workers under pressure and social care" (WOUPS) supported by the French ministry of labour (MIRE) and by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), coordinated by the department of Ecole nationale de la santé publique at the University in Rennes. Towards this project, we also provided a report on the institutional framework of the German long-term care system, which we only synthetically summarize in the first part of this. The outline of the report is as follows: The first section points to the relevance of balancing employment and informal elderly care in Germany and highlights the peculiarities of elderly care compared to child care. The second section, after a synthetic description of the key elements of the German long term care system, presents an overview, based on existing survey data, of the incidence and characteristics of workers having caring responsibilities towards an adult family member in Germany. The third section describes our sample of carers and evaluates its representativity and possible biases. In the fourth section, we discuss different patterns of work/care arrangements. In the fifth chapter, we analyse the tensions arising in these arrangements with regard both to caring and to gainful employment, paying attention to constrains, but also to the - human and emotional - resources carers are able to mobilize in the various situations. In the following two sections, the conciliation, or balancing, perspective is broadened to include family and friendship relationships as well as time for one's own. In the concluding section, we highlight the most crucial aspects which put care givers in employment under pressure and we describe measures that might ease their situation.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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