Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home – and a substantially lower rate of individual-level perceived accessibility....

BACKGROUND Women in medicine report many gender-specific barriers to their career success and satisfaction, including a lack of mentors and role models. The literature calls for innovative strategies to enhance mentorship for women in medicine. OBJECTIVE To describe the content, perceived value, and ongoing achievements of a mentoring program for women in emergency medicine. METHODS The pro...

Studies from a multitude of countries suggest that women become self-employed after having children to facilitate the work-family balance. In Sweden, generous parental leave and heavily subsided childcare is available, facilitating for parents to hold salaried jobs. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether having children increases the likelihood of individuals being self-employed. One m...

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of employment and child care decisions of women after birth. By estimating the model, I analyze the e¤ect of mothers’ decisions on children outcomes and behaviors. Based on the estimates of the model, I assess the impact of parental leave and child care policies on women’s decisions, children’s well-being and the distribution of income.

This paper shows that optimal fiscal and monetary policy is generally time consistent in a standard small open economy. Further, there exist many maturity structures of public debt capable of rendering the optimal policy time consistent. This result is in sharp contrast with that obtained by others in the context of closedeconomy models. In the closed economy, the time consistency of optimal mo...

BACKGROUND Policy initiatives to improve retention of the rural health workforce have relied primarily on evidence for rural doctors, most of whom practice under a private business model. Much of the literature for rural allied health (AH) workforce focuses on the public sector. The AH professions are diverse, with mixed public, private or combined practice settings. This study explores sector ...

During the 2010s, both Finland and Sweden made advancements in their parental leave systems by widening right to paid a greater diversity of family constellations investing gender-equal distribution through longer periods reserved for father. However, latter respect, has remained more successful than Finland. This article analyses government political party discourses during 2010s pursuit an ex...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between individual attributes, aggregate female labor force participation, and family policies, (e.g., child care and family leave) on fertility in developed countries using a hierarchical Bayesian model. Data from the European Values Survey, the World Values Survey, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are employed in this ana...

In a tumultuous and unpredictable election year, Americans selected Donald Trump as our 45th president. Mr Trump’s approach to policymaking is still unknown, and his positions on certain issues do not follow the typical partisan patterns within American politics. However, Mr Trump has expressed support for family-oriented policies, including paid family leave and child care subsidies. His admin...