Background: Rising percentages of working mothers and increasing numbers of dual-earner
couples are putting work-family conflicts on the agenda. Studies based on data from the US …

Research aimed at understanding the intersection of employees' work and family lives has
blossomed over the past few years, and, in more recent times, has begun to have an …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

Background: Recent analyses have shown that adverse psychosocial working conditions,
such as job strain and effort–reward imbalance, vary by country and welfare state regimes …

Previous research on the association between parenthood and life satisfaction has shown
that parents of minor children are not more satisfied with their lives than childless people …

Does the use of Internet for professional purposes foster employees' job satisfaction? We
focus on six main work characteristics–income, education, occupation type, autonomy, time …

This article captures mothers' experiences of the work–family balance and division of
household labor during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. Interviews were conducted with …

Purpose–This paper aims to investigate the effect of flexible working conditions on work‐
family conflict in European countries. Flexible work has increasingly been used by …

This study analysed whether gender context is important to differences in the relationship
between work–family conflict (WFC) and well-being across Europe. We hypothesised that in …