Supporting the Employment of Mothers: Policy Variation Across Fourteen Welfare States

Marcia Meyers (), Katherin Ross Phillips () and Janet Gornick

No 139, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper compares fourteen industrialized Western countries--matched to microdata available from LIS--with respect to a subset of public policies that traditionally fall under the umbrella of ""family policy."" The analysis focuses on policies that facilitate the employment of mothers: parental leave, child care, and the scheduling of public education. Data on eighteen measures of public policy are presented and used to construct composite indices of national policy ""packages"" that support employment for mothers with children of different ages.

Pages: 67 pages
Date: 1996-06
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Published in Journal of European Social Policy, February 1997

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