Rejuvenating Korea
Title | Rejuvenating Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Oecd |
Publisher | Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2019-10-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789264541795 |
Korean families are changing fast. While birth rates remain low, Koreans are marrying and starting a family later than ever before, if at all. Couple-with-children households, the dominant household type in Korea until recently, will soon make up fewer than one quarter of all households. These changes will have a profound effect on Korea's future. Among other things, the Korean labour force is set to decline by about 2.5 million workers by 2040, with potential major implications for economic performance and the sustainability of public finances. Since the early 2000s, public policy has changed to help parents reconcile work and family commitments: Korea has developed a comprehensive formal day-care and kindergarten system with enrolment rates that are now on par with the Nordic countries. Korea also has one year of paid parental leave for both parents, but only about 25% of mothers and 5% of fathers use it, as workplace cultures are often not conducive to parents, especially fathers, taking leave. Cultural change will take time, but this review suggests there also is a need for additional labour market, education and social policy reform to help Koreans achieve both work and family aspirations, and contribute to the rejuvenation of Korean society.
Gender Equality at Work Rejuvenating Korea: Policies for a Changing Society
Title | Gender Equality at Work Rejuvenating Korea: Policies for a Changing Society PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2019-10-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264637389 |
Korean families are changing fast. While birth rates remain low, Koreans are marrying and starting a family later than ever before, if at all. Couple-with-children households, the dominant household type in Korea until recently, will soon make up fewer than one quarter of all households. These changes will have a profound effect on Korea’s future. Among other things, the Korean labour force is set to decline by about 2.5 million workers by 2040, with potential major implications for economic performance and the sustainability of public finances.
Joining Forces for Gender Equality What is Holding us Back?
Title | Joining Forces for Gender Equality What is Holding us Back? PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2023-05-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264728015 |
OECD countries continue to face persistent gender inequalities in social and economic life. Young women often reach higher levels of education than young men, but remain under-represented in fields with the most lucrative careers.
Exploring Norway's Fertility, Work, and Family Policy Trends
Title | Exploring Norway's Fertility, Work, and Family Policy Trends PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2023-06-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264648631 |
Like other Nordic countries Norway has been investing heavily in family policy to enable combining work and family life. Nevertheless, between 2009 and 2022 the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Norway dropped from 2 children to 1.4 children per woman.
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
Title | The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Rense Nieuwenhuis |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 727 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 3030546187 |
"This engaging collection gathers theoretical and empirical insights from leading family policy experts. The authors - representing diverse countries, disciplines, and methods - bring to life the volume's innovative conceptual framework, which is organized around policy institutions, both public and private. The volume closes with a call for new lines of research that should inform family policy scholars for years to come."--Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, and Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA "Featuring exciting contributors from a range of often-siloed scholarly disciplines, countries and cultures, this Handbook offers nuanced insights into how interacting societal inequality factors influence family policy enactment to reinforce or improve inequality outcomes across gender, class, and nations. It is ambitious, broad-reaching, and succeeds in providing a strategic view within and across nations to inspire thoughtful evidence-based policy implications to improve societies in the future."--Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, Purdue University, USA This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such as child income support, childcare services, parental leave, and leave to provide care to frail and elderly family members. The chapters evaluate their impact in improving children's development and equal opportunities, promoting gender equality, regulating fertility, productivity and economic inequality, and take an intersectional perspective related to gender, class, and family diversity. The editors conclude by presenting a new research agenda based on five major challenges pertaining to the levels of policy implementation (in particular globalization and decentralization), austerity and marketization, inequality, changing family relations, and welfare states adapting to women's empowered roles
OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2023
Title | OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2023 PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2023-10-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264855041 |
The Australian economy rebounded robustly in the wake of the pandemic. However, inflation has risen and fiscal pressures are on the horizon due to population ageing and climate change.
Evolving Family Models in Spain A New National Framework for Improved Support and Protection for Families
Title | Evolving Family Models in Spain A New National Framework for Improved Support and Protection for Families PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2022-02-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264837795 |
Spanish society values families and family life highly, but the way that families look and live has been changing drastically over the past decades. From being one of the countries with the highest fertility rates in Europe, Spain now has the lowest rate in the region and the legalisation of divorce and social acceptance of co-habitation has led to a decline in the traditional nuclear family model.