The Gender Informal Care Gap: A fuzzy-set analysis of cross-country variations

European Societies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 199-218

  Da Roit, Barbara ^a   Hoogenboom, Marcel ^b   Weicht, Bernhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Care policies; Fuzzy set analysis; Gender employment gap; Gender informal care gap; Gendered care attitudes; Informal care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926520644     PISSN: 14616696     EISSN: 14698307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2015.1007153     Document Type: Article

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