Taxing reproduction: the full transfer cost of rearing children in Europe

Taxing reproduction: the full transfer cost of rearing children in Europe

What are the intergenerational resource transfer contributions of parents and non-parents in Europe? Using National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts for 12 countries around 2010, we go beyond public transfers (net taxes) to also value two statistically much less visible transfers in the family realm: of market goods and of unpaid household labour (time). Non-parents contribute almost exclusively to public transfers. But parents additionally provide still larger private transfers: mothers mainly time, fathers mainly market goods.

Work Life Balance and Fatherhood

Work Life Balance and Fatherhood

Fathers struggle between the desire to be involved fathers (spending time and engaging with their children during the working week) and their role as the main breadwinner in the family (facing and managing the demands of “greedy” organizational culture

Work Life Integration-Concept-Definitions-Trends-Theories

Work Life Integration-Concept-Definitions-Trends-Theories

For decades scholars and practitioners have worked to develop and integrate work–life. The topic of work–life has evolved into one of the most significant business issues of the 21st century.Rooted in the history of women’s rights and equal opportunity in education and the workplace, the notion of work–life has shifted in focus from solely a woman’s concern to a workforce management issue