Women's and men’s career interruptions in Europe : the role of social policies

How do countries differ in the type and level of women’s and men’s labour-market participation around parenthood? What are the models of interruptions prevalent? What is their impact on subsequent participation and wages? How does this impact depend on duration, type and “gender” of interruptions? H...

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Hauptverfasser: Musumeci, Rosy, Solera, Cristina
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Observatoire de la société britannique 2013
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Zusammenfassung:How do countries differ in the type and level of women’s and men’s labour-market participation around parenthood? What are the models of interruptions prevalent? What is their impact on subsequent participation and wages? How does this impact depend on duration, type and “gender” of interruptions? How such impact is connected to the different social policies offered? Drawing on existing comparative datasets and offering a synthesis of the main “facts” and arguments provided so far in the literature, this paper addresses these questions by looking both at women and men and at similarities and differences within enlarged Europe. It shows that there is clearly a cost to employment discontinuities, either for unemployment or family-care, in terms of current and future participation, career opportunities, and wages, and these costs are institutionally and culturally embedded.