This article explores the gender biases of recessions and policy responses they have entailed in France and Germany in the 2000s. During the Great Recession, France experienced a significant rise in both female and male unemployment. Germany apparently witnessed a gendered ?employment miracle?...

The crisis that began in 2008 has hit European countries diversely, causing economic and labour market disequilibria of more or less magnitude. As with past global crises, the current one has gendered implications. While women’s employment is said to have been preserved relative to men’s in...

Is it sufficient to reduce working time to improve the work and family balance? This article attempts to answer this question by analyzing the impact of the French law reducing the working week to 35 hours on the daily life, as perceived by parents with a young child under six years old. Six out...

This contribution to the Gusto research project for the European 7th framework programme (Work Package 3: individual pathways to Flexibility and Sustainability) examines how employment uncertainty during the transition into the labour force differently impacts family formation in Germany and...

L'objectif de la mission est de décrire et analyser les différents aspects des inégalités, dans l'emploi, la retraite, le chômage et l'inactivité, définir les relations entre le temps et l'organisation du travail d'une part, mettre en évidence les conditions qui font que le risque de...

This research provides an overview of the facilities proposed by French companies to help their employees, not only to reconcile work and family life, but more widely in the fulfillment of their parental responsibilities. The commitment of companies is strongly framed by the legislation and by...

L'objectif de la mission est de décrire et analyser les différents aspects des inégalités, dans l'emploi, la retraite, le chômage et l'inactivité, définir les relations entre le temps et l'organisation du travail d'une part, mettre en évidence les conditions qui font que le risque de...

The purpose of this report is to produce an overview of available knowledge about the following issues:  the costs (to parents) of parenthood and of raising children in European Countries;  the effectiveness, in the short and long term, of various policy measures in avoiding or...