Since the Golden Age of Welfare State ended, male-breadwinner family model traditionally supported by conservative parties has been put under pressure. Familialism appears to be no longer attractive a changing, more volatile constituency. By comparing four different European countries – namely, Denmark, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom this work investigates evolution parties’ policy positions...

Family policy is aimed at neutralising, or at least lessening, the negative impact of psychological, social and economic constraints for forming families and having the desired/greater number of children. Financial and other family policy measures reconcile the objectives of strengthening families, offering equal opportunities to men and women, and increasing the well-being of individuals and f...

This article is an attempt to analyze the impact of different models of the family policy on the distribution of the tasks in paid labour and family economy between men and women. The example of Germany which experienced multiple shifts in its policy direction in the recent decades, provides rich material for cultural and historical comparison. It is argued that modern family policy should be d...

This article analyzes the impact on fertility of changes in national expenditure for family allowances, maternity- and parental-leave benefits, and childcare subsidies. To do so, I estimate a model for the timing of births using individual-level data from 16 western European countries, supplemented with data on national social expenditure for different family policy programs. The latter allow a...

365 Dawson, P.J., 1988. Labour on the family farm: a theory under uncertainty. Agric. Econ., 1:365-380. This paper develops a theory of the family farm in conditions of uncertainty where attention is focussed on the labour-input decisions. Specifically, the farm family is faced with two labour decisions, namely with respect to hired labour and to family labour. The framework for analysis is exp...