Family-friendly work practices in Britain
Subtitle: availability and perceived accessibility
By: by John W. Budd, Karen A. Mumford.
Contributors: Mumford, Karen.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1662; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1662.
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Work and family -- Great Britain.
Description: "Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices--parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home -- and a substantially lower rate of individual-level perceived accessibility. Our results demonstrate that statistics on workplace availability drastically overstate the extent to which employees perceive that family-friendly are accessible to them personally. British workplaces appear to be responding slowly and perhaps disingenuously to pressures to enhance family-friendly work practices"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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