Do ‘institutional complementarities’ foster female labour force participation?
利用18个OECD国家1980-2007年的数据，分析工作-生活平衡政策对女性劳动参与的影响，发现政策间的互补性及不同家庭政策体制下的效果差异。
Abstract We analyse how female labour force participation responds to policies supporting the work-life balance, and do so using country-level data for 18 OECD countries from 1980 to 2007. Included is an original analysis of ‘complementarities’ between different policy measures, as well as of potential variations in their influence across different family policy regimes. The results highlight that expanded childcare service coverage affects women's labour market participation, which is greater in countries where support for working mothers is higher overall. But the influence of each single policy measure varies across regimes. Interactions between policy measures and the context in which they are implemented are important factors to consider since they can, for instance, either foster the positive impact of one measure or lessen the adverse effect of another.