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This chapter examines the diversity of existing family-policy institutions in 15 member states of the European Union and develops a typology of family policies by means of cluster analysis. The countries included are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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The family-policy indicators used in this chapter were collected during the research project “Attitudes Toward Welfare State Institutions: New Perspectives for the Comparative Welfare State Analysis,” which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) between 2006 and 2009. I already analyzed and published these indicators in the first part of the chapter “Family policy – one for all?” (Wendt et al. 2011).
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For a brief overview of divergent opinions about the effect of leave on women’s labor-market attachment, see Kangas and Rostgaard (2007).
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For concerns expressed over too early usage of professional childcare, please refer to Belsky (2001) and Brooks-Gunn et al. (2002).
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Mischke, M. (2014). Family policies in Europe – a cluster analysis. In: Public Attitudes towards Family Policies in Europe. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03577-8_3
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