Across welfare societies we have seen the emergence of policies and norms for work-life
balance alongside rising expectations among working parents to be able to participate in …

This study develops a conceptual framework with a capabilities and agency approach for
analyzing work–life balance (WLB) applied in two societies (Hungary and Sweden), which …

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and
tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring …

Many scholars are engaged with worklife balance (WLB hereafter) and its importance for
quality of life. An expanding literature has emerged with cross-national comparisons …

Czech family policies have gone through dramatic changes since the 1989 transition to a
market economy, resulting into the highest employment gap between women with and …

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life
balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk …

This thesis addresses people's capabilities to plan and have a family, and to be engaged
family members by analysing those factors that shape their capabilities and agency to do so; …

This chapter addresses the issue of weak capabilities for having and caring for children in
Budapest as being reflected by the views of 100 working parents on their fertility-related …

Before the transition to a market economy, Hungary and other countries with a socialist
economic system were characterized by relatively low levels of income inequality …

This paper proposes a simple and transparent methodology for decomposing changes in
the aggregate labour force participation rate over time into changes in the labour force …