Data di Pubblicazione:
2018
Citazione:
Maternal employment : enabling factors in context / G. Dotti Sani, S. Scherer. - In: WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY. - ISSN 0950-0170. - 32:1(2018 Feb), pp. 75-92. [10.1177/0950017016677944]
Abstract:
Maternal employment is still below the overall EU recommended level of 60% in many European
countries. Understanding the individual, household and contextual circumstances under which
mothers of children of different ages are likely to be employed is crucial to develop strategies
capable of increasing maternal employment. This article takes a comparative approach to
investigating the characteristics associated with maternal employment in the presence of children
aged 0–2, 3–5, 6–9 and 10–12 years. We model the probability of being employed full-time, parttime
or being a homemaker using EU-SILC data (2004 to 2007) from Germany, Italy, Norway
and the United Kingdom – four countries belonging to different gender and welfare regimes. The
results indicate that individual and household characteristics are more relevant in determining
mothers’ employment in countries where the state is less supportive towards maternal
employment: Italy and to a lesser extent Germany and the UK – for the period observed.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Children’s age; Maternal Employment; Work–family reconciliation
Elenco autori:
G. Dotti Sani, S. Scherer
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