Labor Market Regimes, Family Policies, and Women's Behavior in the EU
基于24个欧洲国家的数据，研究劳动力市场制度和家庭政策（尤其是儿童保育和休假制度）如何影响有幼儿的女性和母亲的就业状况，发现公共儿童保育与女性就业正相关，而育儿假与就业负相关。
Using the EU-SILC database (2005–06) for twenty-four European countries, this article develops a comparative perspective on labor market situations of women and mothers with very young children in relation to labor market institutions and policies (especially childcare and leave schemes). Using multilevel multinomial logit models, our results show firstly the heterogeneity of national arrangements of women's labor market integration in Europe (including among new member states). Secondly, our results show the links between some national policy variables and women's behavior, despite the fact that individual factors explain labor market situations the most. Women's employment is positively related to formal childcare and to characteristics of national labor market regimes. The use of informal childcare is associated with lower women's employment rates, which might be explained by a substitution effect. The employment rate of mothers with very young children is positively related to public childcare and negatively to parental leave.