Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child
care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically …

Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its
predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular …

Childhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following
New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and …

This study examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-
parent households and two-parent households. We distinguished between reconciliation …

Concern over the reliability of conventional poverty studies has focused attention on the
need to demonstrate that those identified as poor are actually experiencing hardship. This …

Objective. This article compares recent levels and trends in economic inequality in
industrialized nations, largely those belonging to the Organization for Economic …

The first fully comparative study of fuel poverty across the EU, this work analyses the
relationship between domestic energy efficiency, fuel poverty and health. The book adopts a …

Children grow up with a radically different sense of self and relationships to others
depending on time and place and where and when they were brought up. The study of child …

This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state
development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that …

The central concern of this volume is the emergence of 'children's voice'and the implications
of this for social policy. Taken together the contributing chapters provide the fresh …