Typologies have represented an important tool for the development of comparative social policy research and continue to be widely used in spite of growing criticism of their ability to capture the complexity of welfare states and their internal heterogeneity. In particular, debates have focused on the presence of hybrid cases and the existence of distinct cross-national pattern of variation acr...

Many family caregivers of older adults suffer from a high burden of care and struggle with the balance of jobs and caregiving tasks. However, the United States is the only developed country without paid sick leave policies for all workers and their families. The purpose of this article is to review the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and empirical studies about paid sick policy, pro...

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor’s gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific decomposition of the incidence and the duration of training into three terms: an age-specific coeffic...

This paper describes and compares transitions into employment of mothers of newborn children in several European countries. Although female labour participation has increased everywhere, women are still likely to interrupt their career, when they have a child, for a period of time longer than the basic maternity leave. Using data from ECHP, we select women who have a child during the survey and...

This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from German micro census from 1957 until 2001. Aggregate weekly hours per working-age woman are decomposed into hours worked per employee – the intensive margin of adjustment – and into labor force participation – the extensive margin. T...

We describe four types of inner involutions of the Cartan-Weyl basis providing (for |q| = 1 and q real) three types of real quantum Lie algebras: Uq(O(3, 2)) (quantum D = 4 anti-de-Sitter), Uq(O(4, 1)) (quantum D = 4 de-Sitter) and Uq(O(5)). We give also two types of inner involutions of the Cartan-Chevalley basis of Uq(Sp(4;C)) which can not be extended to inner involutions of the Cartan-Weyl ...

More than fifteen years elapsed between the date Theresa Marie Schiavo suffered a cardiac arrest, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state because of brain damage, and the date she took her last breath.1 The conflict between her parents and her husband regarding her medical care lasted for more than twelve of those fifteen years.2 The litigation over her care lasted for more than six.3 It i...

One of the core values for changing role village head is to avoid elevating locals status minor dynasty. This principle also based on desire leave new order and herald in reform era. But current era, head's authority not constrained by constitution has actually had his term office lengthened most recent law. According Law No. 6 2014 Concerning Villages, position remains years increases three ti...

Churchill, Surgn.-Col. A. F., m.d., a.m.s., is brought on the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, vice Surgn -Col. E. C. Markey, c B., who has reverted to the home establishment. Dated 22nd May 1895. Gallwey, Bde.-Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. M. M., M.D., A.M.S., to the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, with the tempy. rank of Surgn -Col., vice Surgn.-Maj.-Genl A. A. Gore, M.D., appointed P. M. O., H. M.'s F...

In modern welfare states, family policies may resolve the tension between employment and care-focused demands. However these policies sometimes have adverse consequences for distinct social groups. This study examined gender and educational differences in working parents' perceived work-family conflict and used a comparative approach to test whether family policies, in particular support for ch...