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Women's work, the family & social policy : focus on Italy in a European perspective

Daniela Del Boca, +1 more
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The article was published on 2003-08-28 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social policy & Women's work.

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The wage penalty induced by part-time work: the case of Belgium

Maria Jepsen, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time work for a sample of women only and compare the results with earlier results for Belgium based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP).
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Balancing Work and Family in Italy: New Mothers' Employment Decisions after Childbirth

Piero Casadio, +2 more
- 08 Sep 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the employment patterns of Italian mothers around the time of childbirth and find that the difficulties involved in reconciling work and family when there are children are among the leading causes of the low female employment rate in Italy.
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Making time for working parents: comparing public childcare provision

Jérôme De Henau, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
TL;DR: In some countries, having children is considered to be a private choice, so that parents have to pay for the cost of children In others, it is a public matter, in which case the state helps parents maintain their standard of living when they decide to have children.
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Parents’ care and career: Comparing parental leave policies

Jérôme De Henau, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the state's involvement in parental leave schemes may also be related to the way a country conceives children's early socialisation: through private external care, through public facilities or through parental care.
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Pay inequality in 25 European countries

Sile Padraigin O'Dorchai
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of parenthood on the gender wage gap is examined. But there is no uniform relationship between the parenthood and the gender gap in 25 European countries using EU-SILC 2005.