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Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
wiley   +1 more source

Care work policies in France: The pitfalls of austerity and fragmentation [PDF]

Tempo Social
This article questions French public policies and regulations of (paid and unpaid, formal and informal) care work in the wake of the pandemic. It first examines the “care crisis” already in place prior to the pandemic.
Anne Eydoux
doaj   +2 more sources

Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati, María Jesús Rodríguez‐García   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The determinants of UK mothers’ joint decision on formal childcare and labour supply given the availability of informal childcare

Abstract The UK is one of the largest investors in childcare provision among developed countries. However, the empirical literature shows these investments have not been effective enough in supporting British working mothers; this becomes even more complex in a context where different sources of informal childcare are available.
Alessandro Cusimano, Diego da Silva Rodrigues, Ian Jackson   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

Demand Networks and Informal Volunteering

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patterns of volunteering have predominantly been explained by focusing on the supply side in terms of volunteers' resources and motivations. We shift the focus to the demand side of volunteering and develop the concept of demand networks.
Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Jonas Toubøl
wiley   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Co-resident grandparent and maternal employment. A Northern Ireland cross-sectional administrative data analysis

International Journal of Population Data Science
The trade-off between the costs of childcare provision and the benefits of having an increased proportion of women, particularly women with dependent children, in employment is one of the most taxing social issues for Western governments.
Ana Corina Miller, Dermot O'Reilly, David Wright   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Care Received by Migrant Women Who Died During or After Pregnancy: A National Confidential Case Note Review

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To co‐produce a bespoke maternity care checklist for recently arrived migrant women in the UK. To use this to describe the maternity care received by recently arrived migrant women who died during or up to six weeks after pregnancy over the past decade in the UK, and generate hypotheses about areas for improvement.
Kerrie Stevenson, Kemi Ogunlana, Nirupama Prabhakar, Brenda Kelly, Allison Felker, Fiona Stevenson, Robert W. Aldridge, Sara Kenyon, Marian Knight, Nicola Vousden   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer, Jay H. Hardy III, Carter Gibson, Chris Frost, Qurie Hong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source