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Anders Björklund - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Does Family Policy affect fertility
Journal of Population Economics, 2006Co-Authors: Anders BjörklundAbstract:Fertility, Family Policy, Comparative studies, J13, J18, D13,
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does Family Policy affect fertility
Journal of Population Economics, 2006Co-Authors: Anders BjörklundAbstract:From the mid-1960s to around 1980, Sweden extended its Family policies that provide financial and in-kind support to families with children very quickly. The benefits were closely tied to previous work experience. Thus, women born in the 1950s faced markedly different incentives when making fertility choices compared to women born only 15–20 years earlier. This paper examines the evolution of completed fertility patterns for Swedish women born in 1925–1958 and makes comparisons to women in neighbouring countries where the policies were not extended as much as in Sweden. The results suggest that the extension of the Policy raised the level of fertility, shortened the spacing of births, and induced fluctuations in the period fertility rates, but it did not change the negative relationship between women’s educational level and completed fertility.
Miai Sung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Family Policy in South Korea: Development, Current Status, and Challenges
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Meejung Chin, Jaerim Lee, Soyoung Lee, Seohee Son, Miai SungAbstract:We provide a comprehensive review of Family Policy in South Korea (Korea hereafter) for international readers. Alarmed by recent social and demographic changes, the Korean government has started to establish explicit Family policies from the mid 2000s. These policies have signified a symbolic attention shift to Family matters in the history of social Policy in Korea. In this paper, we focus on three areas of Family Policy: (a) work-Family policies, (b) a healthy Family Policy, and (c) a Policy for multi-cultural families. Work-Family policies aim to help working families with young children balance work responsibilities and Family caregiving through multiple leave options and child care support. The Framework Act on Healthy Families, the first explicit Family Policy in Korea, requires local governments to provide Family services through Healthy Family Support Centers. The Multi-Cultural Family Support Act also established a formal support system for multi-cultural families with immigrant spouses, a population group that has recently increased in Korea. We further discuss the domestic and comparative contexts of Korean Family Policy and provide suggestions for the remaining challenges.
Olivier Thévenon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy - Family Policies and Family Outcomes in OECD Countries
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, 2020Co-Authors: Willem Adema, Chris Clarke, Olivier ThévenonAbstract:AbstractFamilies in OECD member countries have changed dramatically in recent decades. Across almost all OECD countries, couples are marrying and starting a Family later than ever before. Fertility rates are low. Divorce and re-partnering have become much more common, giving rise to a diversity of new Family forms. The (male) single-earner Family model, previously dominant, is now largely a thing of the past. This chapter examines how families and Family policies have changed in OECD countries in recent decades. It starts with an overview of changes in families, in partnering behaviours, in Family living arrangements, and in Family work arrangements. The chapter then turns to the evolution of Family Policy and the Policy response to changing families, such as increases in public Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) support and the provision of fathers-only paid parental leave. It concludes by highlighting important key challenges ahead, including how Policy must adapt to growing inequalities between families.
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The impact of Family Policy packages on fertility trends in developed countries.
European Journal of Population, 2013Co-Authors: Angela Luci Greulich, Olivier ThévenonAbstract:We examine how strongly fertility trends respond to Family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different Family Policy instruments on fertility, using macro panel data from 18 OECD countries that spans the years 1982-2007. Our results confirm that each instrument of the Family Policy package (paid leave, childcare services and financial transfers) has a positive influence on average, suggesting that the combination of these forms of support for working parents during their children's early years is likely to facilitate parents' choice to have children. Policy levers do not all have the same weight, however: in-cash benefits covering childhood after the year of childbirth and the provision of childcare services for children under age three have a larger potential influence on fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Moreover, we find that the influence of each Policy measure varies across different Family Policy contexts. Our findings are robust after controlling for birth postponement, endogeneity, time-lagged fertility reactions and for different aspects of national contexts, such as female labour market participation, unemployment, labour market protection and the proportion of children born out of marriage.
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The impact of Family Policy packages on fertility trends in developed countries.
2011Co-Authors: Angela Luci, Olivier ThévenonAbstract:We examine how far fertility trends respond to Family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different Family Policy settings on fertility, using data from 18 OECD countries that spans the years 1982 to 2007. Our results confirm that each instrument of the Family Policy package (paid leave, childcare services and financial transfers) has a positive influence, suggesting that the addition of these supports for working parents in a continuum during the early childhood is likely to facilitate parents' choice to have children. Policy levers do not have similar weight, however: in-cash benefits covering childhood after the year of childbirth and the coverage of childcare services for children under age three have a larger potential influence on fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Our findings are robust once controlling for birth postponement, endogeneity, time lagged fertility reactions and for different national contexts, such as economic development, female employment rates, labour market insecurity and childbearing norms.
Susan P. Limber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Contributions of Social Science to Family Policy
Journal of Social Issues, 1996Co-Authors: Allison A. Rosenberg, Susan P. LimberAbstract:The article examines the legal context of U.S. Family Policy as well as the political history of U.S. Family Policy from 1965 to 1996. The contributions that social scientists have to make in Policy formulation are noted. This article ends by previewing the accompanying articles which collectively constitute a Journal of Social Issues treatment of Family Policy. Those articles are grouped into three broad areas of Family Policy (Family structure work and health) representing the range of policies that affect the formation and dissolution of families and the health and economic well-being of Family members. (EXCERPT)
Soohyun Christine Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the politics of postindustrial social Policy Family Policy reforms in britain germany south korea and sweden
Comparative Political Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Timo Fleckenstein, Soohyun Christine LeeAbstract:Recent welfare reforms across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have sought to make social policies more “employment friendly.” Although “old” social policies of the Golden Age (namely, unemployment protection and old-age security, which were typically geared toward the male breadwinner model) were subject to comprehensive retrenchment, “new” social policies, especially Family policies facilitating work–Family reconciliation and female employment participation, experienced substantial expansion. Following the Swedish “pioneer,” strong male breadwinner countries have expanded employment-oriented Family policies since the late 1990s. Against the case of early Family Policy expansion in Sweden (typically associated with social democracy and an organized women’s movement), they examine whether the drivers of employment-oriented Family Policy have changed since the end of the Golden Age. The authors highlight party competition as key political driver in Policy expansion in “late...
