Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility

John Budd and Karen Mumford ()

No 1662, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home – and a substantially lower rate of individual-level perceived accessibility. Our results demonstrate that statistics on workplace availability drastically overstate the extent to which employees perceive that family-friendly are accessible to them personally. British workplaces appear to be responding slowly and perhaps disingenuously to pressures to enhance family-friendly work practices.

Keywords: family friendly; perceived; access; availability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J32 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2005-07
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Published - revised version published in: Human Resource Management , 2006, 45 (1), 23-42

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