Francesca Bettio - Gender and the European Labour Market

Gender and the European Labour
Market

Changing industrial relations and family settings, in combination with demographic trends, have led to a dramatic change in labour market structures and policies. The male breadwinner model, with the gendered division of paid and unpaid work, no longer characterises the behaviour of a significant proportion of European families. Rather, the adult worker model, in which it is assumed that both men and women are active in the labour market, serves as a normative framework, inspiring both the labour market behaviour of individual men and women as well as the policy measures at national and international level.

The book presents state-of-the-art research on women and men's current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis, with overall assessment of the actual impact of the European Employment Strategy and the specific impact of key policies, such as taxation and flexicurity.

The book covers a large number of countries and deals with a large diversity of topics. It includes a chapter on care of the elderly, for example, in addition to that of children. Also, employment and gender equality policy at the European level is comprehensively analysed and assessed, including taxation and the contribution of fathers to changes in family life.

Francesca Bettio is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Italy.

Janneke Plantenga is Professor of Economics at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Mark Smith is Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France.

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2 Work and Employment in Europe

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3 Trans-European Telecommunication Networks

The challenges for industrial policy

Colin Turner

4 European Union European Industrial Relations?

Global challenges, national developments and transnational dynamics

Edited by Wolfgang E. Lecher and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

5 Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France

The modernizing state in the mid-twentieth century

Edited by Noel Whiteside and Robert Salais

6 Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union

Employment protection and fixed-term contracts

Klaus Schmann, Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Kruppe

7 The Enlargement of the European Union

Issues and strategies

Edited by Victoria Curzon-Price, Alice Landau and Richard Whitman

8 European Trade Unions

Change and response

Edited by Mike Rigby, Roger Smith and Teresa Lawlor

9 Fiscal Federalism in the European Union

Edited by Amedeo Fossati and Giorgio Panella

10 European Telecommunications Liberalisation

Edited by Kjell A. Eliassen and Marit Sjvaag

11 Integration and Transition in Europe

The economic geography of interaction

Edited by George Petrakos, Gunther Maier and Grzegorz Gorzelak

12 SMEs and European Integration

Internationalisation strategies

Birgit Hegge

13 Fiscal Federalism and European Economic Integration

Edited by Mark Baimbridge and Philip Whyman

14 Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Stability and efficiency

Edited by Morten Balling, Frank Lierman and Andy Mullineux

15 Russian Path Dependence

Stefan Hedlund

16 The Impact of European Integration on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion

Edited by Christiane Krieger-Boden, Edgar Morgenroth and George Petrakos

17 Macroeconomic Policy in the European Monetary Union

From the old to the new stability and growth pact

Edited by Francesco Farina and Roberto Tamborini

18 Economic Policy Proposals for Germany and Europe

Edited by Ronald Schettkat and Jochem Langkau

19 Competitiveness of New Europe

Papers from the second Lancut economic forum

Edited by Jan Winiecki

20 Deregulation and the Airline Business in Europe

Sean Barrett

21 Beyond Market Access for Economic Development

EUAfrica relations in transition

Edited by Gerrit Faber and Jan Orbie

22 International Trade, Consumer Interests and Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

Edited by Susan Mary Senior Nello and Pierpaolo Pierani

23 Economic Governance in the EU

Willem Molle

24 Financial Integration in the European Union

Edited by Roman Matouek and Daniel Stavrek

25 Europe and the Mediterranean Economy

Edited by Joan Costa-Font

26 The Political Economy of the European Social Model

Philip S. Whyman, Mark J. Baimbridge and Andrew Mullen

27 Gender and the European Labour Market

Edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga and Mark Smith

Gender and the European
Labour Market

Edited by Francesca Bettio,
Janneke Plantenga and Mark Smith

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Gender and the European labour market/edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga and Mark Smith.

p. cm.
1. WomenEmploymentEurope. 2. Sexual division of laborEurope.
3. Sex discrimination in employmentEurope. 4. Labor marketEurope.
5. Labor policyEurope. 6. Manpower policyEurope. I. Bettio, Francesca. II. Plantenga, Janneke, 1956 III. Smith, Mark, 1971 Jan. 26 HD6134.G45 2012
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