Content with the tag: conciliación laboral y familiar

Child support benefits improve the economic situation of families and appear to be positive for increasing fertility rates. How can they be designed with efficiency?

Are benefits for supporting reconciliation designed to boost women’s labour participation effective, or do they lead to an increase in the wage gap?

Spain is one of EU countries with the highest proportion of childless women. Why?

According to this study, the gender gap in total hours of work, paid and unpaid, has increased to 16 hours during the pandemic.

According to this study, in comparison with the year 2002, in 2010 there was an increase in the time that mothers, and even more so fathers, devoted to their children. Despite this, the gender gap persists.

Four out of every ten workers in Spain, who have or are seeking a job, would be prepared to go and live somewhere else. Income and the professional career associated with upwards social mobility are the main reasons for interregional mobility.   

According to this study, following new additions to the family only 4% of fathers requested reduced working hours, versus 37.7% of mothers. 

In which European countries is the work-family conflict greatest? What measures for reconciliation are most popular among men and women? We analyse company policies and satisfaction among families.