Combining Self-Employment and Family Life
Despite the increasing policy interest in work-life balance issues, relatively little research has been carried out on the links between self-employment and family life. This report considers, for the first time, the extent to which new family-friendly initiatives and legislation provide adequate support for self-employed parents. Drawing on an analysis of survey material from 10,000 families with children, the report explores topical issues such as: whether self-employment offers working parents greater flexibility than paid employment; the price of flexibility; difficulties in relation to childcare; and differences between the experiences o…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: La Valle, Ivana (National Centre for Social Research (NatCen))
- ISBN: 978-1-86134-533-2
- EAN: 9781861345332
- Produktnummer: 4008946
- Verlag: Policy Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H29.6 cm x B21.0 cm x D0.4 cm 264 g
- Abbildungen: No
- Gewicht: 264
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Alice Bell is a Researcher at NatCen (National Centre for Social Research) where she has been involved in the design and coordination of several large-scale surveys in the fields of education and childcare, including a recent national survey of parents of three- and four-year-old children, which explored their use of early years services. Ivana La Valle is a Research Director at NatCen where she is responsible for coordinating the NatCen policy interest group on families and children. In recent years she has conducted several large-scale surveys, as well as in-depth qualitative studies, on the link between parental employment and childcare provision, family-friendly working practices, student parents and the impact of atypical working on family life.
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