Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

In Sweden, government-mandated paid parental leave has been available to both mothers
and fathers since 1974. By 2006, each parent had two non-transferable leave months and …

European Union policy encourages men and women to share parental leave to balance
work and family life and promote gender equality in the labor market. A new directive …

This paper contributes to the comparative social policy literature in two ways. First, we use
multiple correspondence analysis in order to assess the different directions and the degree …

This paper introduces a historical, macro-political argument into the literature on anti-
immigration sentiment, which has mainly considered individual-level predictors such as …

This article contributes to the welfare state regime literature from a substantive and
methodological perspective. At a very abstract level we confirm the relevance of the welfare …

The call for family and medical leave reform in the United States was largely the result of
sweeping demographic shifts that occurred in the workforce after the 1950s, coupled with an …

As discussed extensively in this volume, policies have important implications for how
families are formed and how they live their lives. Family leave policies, among other things …

Family policies in the Nordic countries gain international attention. 1 An important reason for
this is that they appear to produce good results: the Nordic countries combine comparatively …

Case Story: Continuity and Change in One Family “I am a 'witch doctor',” 70-year-old Khume
told me, sitting outside his thatched sleeping-hut in a poor, remote village in South Africa. By …