Childcare policies of the Nordic welfare states: Different paths to enable parents to earn and care?

Care and Social Integration in European Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 153-172

  Eydal, Guðný Björk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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