Family Policies in Industrialized Countries: Is There Convergence?

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Explaining convergence of OECD welfare states: a conditional approach (2011, background): “Some scholars focus on sub-areas of the welfare state including family policy (Gauthier, 2002; Gornick and Meyers, 2001), social assistance (Nelson, 2008) and social services (Kautto, 2002).”
Low fertility in Europe: causes implications and policy options. (2006, background): “ducted in recent years (e.g., Gauthier 1996, 2002; Gauthier and Hatzius 1997; Grant et al. 2004; Pampel 2001; Sleebos 2003), although virtually all of these studie s fall short of a sophisticated policy evaluation based on experimental studies.”
Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time1 (2007, background): “…in matters of parental leave has nonetheless considerably changed, since at the beginning of the 1970s France was one of the countries with the longest parental leave, whereas it is now closer to countries with a liberal welfare state than to social democratic welfare regimes (Gauthier 2002).”
Policies addressing the tempo effect in low-fertility countries (2005, background): “So far such policies, which come in a variety of forms under differing national conditions, seem to have had little or no effect on period fertility in the countries with lowest fertility (McDonald 2002; OECD 2003; Gauthier 2002).”