Work-Family balance in Europe. Socio-economic foundations of female behaviour in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. ; Les relations emploi-famille en Europe. Fondements socio-économiques des comportements féminins en Allemagne, Espagne, France, aux Pays-Bas et Royaume-Uni.

Our thesis offers a comparative analysis of the relationships between family building and female labour market behaviour in Europe. A critical survey of micro-economic of female labour supply models stands as a first part. We argue that considering the value of relationships established between the members of a family as purely instrumental, standard utilitarist approaches can not account for the heterogeneity of household family and employment arbitration. As opposed the this line of arguments, we suggest in a second part, that the type of arbitration does vary with the nature of the relation... Mehr ...