Helen Russell

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between four flexible working arrangements; flexitime, part-time hours, working from home and job sharing, and two key employee outcomes; work pressure and work-life conflict, using data from the first national survey of employees in Ireland in 2003.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the dynamics of youth unemployment by comparing young people's transitions from unemployment to employment and find that youth unemployment remains a significant problem in most EU countries, especially in the UK.

TL;DR: This paper explored the influence of working conditions on work-family conflict (WFC) among married/cohabiting employees across seven European countries and found that a policy emphasis on improving work conditions is likely to have major leverage in reducing WFC.

TL;DR: This paper found that women's previous pattern of labour market participation is critical in building up a social network which is resistant to unemployment, and women's more home-centred social activity and their stronger neighbourhood and kinship links means that their social networks are less vulnerable to unemployment than men's.