International perspectives on work-family policies: lessons from the world's most competitive economies [0.03%]
国际视角下的工作-家庭政策：来自世界经济最发达国家的经验教训
Alison Earle,Zitha Mokomane,Jody Heymann
Alison Earle
The United States does not guarantee families a wide range of supportive workplace policies such as paid maternity and paternity leave or paid leave to care for sick children. Proposals to provide such benefits are invariably met with the c...
Heather Boushey
Heather Boushey
The foundations of the major federal policies that govern today's workplace were put in place during the 1930s, when most families had a stay-at-home caregiver who could tend to the needs of children, the aged, and the sick. Seven decades l...
Ellen Galinsky,Kelly Sakai,Tyler Wigton
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky, Kelly Sakai, and Tyler Wigton explore the "time famine" among American workers-the continuing sense among employees of not having enough time to manage the multiple responsibilities of work and personal and family life. Noti...
Ann Bookman,Delia Kimbrel
Ann Bookman
Although most Americans know that the U.S. population is aging, they are far less informed about the reality of providing elders with personal care, health care, and social support. Families-particularly women-have always been critical in p...
Children with health issues [0.03%]
患疾儿童
Mark A Schuster,Paul J Chung,Katherine D Vestal
Mark A Schuster
All children, even the healthiest, have preventive and acute health care needs. Moreover, a growing number of children are chronically ill, with preventive, acute, and ongoing care needs that may be much more demanding than those for health...
Kathleen Christensen,Barbara Schneider,Donnell Butler
Kathleen Christensen
Most working parents face a common dilemma--how to care for their children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler describe the predictable and unp...
Christopher J Ruhm
Christopher J Ruhm
The struggle to balance work responsibilities with family obligations may be most difficult for working parents of the youngest children, those five and under. Any policy changes designed to ease the difficulties for these families are like...
Comparative Study
The Future of children. 2011 Fall;21(2):37-68. DOI:10.1353/foc.2011.0015 2011
Suzanne M Bianchi
Suzanne M Bianchi
American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education-related inequality in work hours and income has grown. These changes,...
George J Borjas
George J Borjas
Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in the labor market. But few researchers hav...
Alejandro Portes,Alejandro Rivas
Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes and Alejandro Rivas examine how young immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. They begin by noting the existence of two distinct pan-ethnic populations: Asian Americans, who tend to be the offspring of high-hu...