This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to
support the development of household services across Europe. It highlights the impact of …

Over the past two decades, many countries across Europe have set up schemes to
subsidize the demand for domestic services. This article suggests that these policy …

Personal services have attracted considerable attention from policy makers in France, with a
view to achieving two objectives: creating jobs and reintegrating those individuals furthest …

While domestic employment had virtually disappeared in Europe over the course of the 20th
century and had, by the 1970s, become widely seen as 'obsolete'and a 'pre-modern form of …

France stands out as the pioneer in Europe in terms of supporting the development of
household services through tax policies, and it is also the country that offers the most …

Tax expenditures are widely used by French governments as employment and social
policies. Such programmes together amounted to more than 1.3 points of GDP in 2011 …

El presente trabajo se divide en tres secciones. La primera, tras unas páginas introductorias
a la problemática del sector, ofrece unas pinceladas de carácter cuantitativo sobre el …

While there is a growing body of literature dealing with the development of migrant domestic
work in Western countries, so far there has been very little attention paid to the development …

Among the European countries that seek to support the personal and household services
(PHS) industry, France plays a pioneering role (Chapter 2). The measures implemented in …

This paper describes, in a non-technical way, the main impact evaluation methods, both
experimental and quasi-experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. In the first …