Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119733 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 639
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
In response to feminist critics, Esping-Andersen (1999) added family to the state-market nexus by examining the degree of familialism across regimes. In the absence of the state defamilializing care, however, it is difficult to predict work-family arrangements without reference to the overall level of inequality and a family's social location within it. Thus, levels of familialism interact with levels of economic inequality. I build on existing categorizations of how two-parent families combine work and care in European countries by adding an explicit consideration of how these patterns vary within countries by education. I utilize hierarchical clustering with data for 16 countries (2004-2010) from the Luxembourg Income Study and the European Social Survey. In some respects, refining country averages by education lends greater support to the tenets of Three Worlds, but also reveals a Southern European pattern distinguished by inequality in work-family arrangements more characteristic of liberal regimes. Findings also illustrate how countries that polarize between dual full-time and male breadwinner families largely polarize by education.
Subjects: 
women's employment
economic inequality
welfare states
work-family
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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