WORKCARE: Research

The literature review sets out the range of reports and articles that contributed to the project. It is organised in a series of chapters with different authors who set out to frame the issues that were later covered in the different workpackages. The literature review can be found as D1 under the section on Reports and Publications. The whole team contributed to the literature review which was edited by Claire Wallace and Ivalyo Vassilev.

Workpackage 2: Social, Demographic and Employment Trends

This workpackage draws together the macro level social, demographic and employment trends in order to understand developments over time and to gain a picture of how different countries can be grouped. The report can be found as D2 under the section Reports and Publications. The authors of the workpackage were Liliana Mateeva and Gabriella Gstrein

Workpackage 3: Labour Market and Social Policies

This workpackage documents the various social policies that contribute to work and care across Europe. It considers maternity leave and parental leave arrangements and creates a clustering of policies based upon work and care. It then goes on to look at how this relates to attitudes and behaviour of households. The report, written by Thomas Boje and Anders Erjnaes can be found as D3 under the Reports and Publications section. A special report written by Jane Lewis considered flexicurity policies at an EU level and in particular countries: Denmark and the Netherlands.

Workpackage 4: Orientations to Work and Care

The workpackage draws upon major cross national surveys such as ISSP, WVS, and ESS to document different orientations to work and care across European countries and how these relate to patterns of behaviour in managing the raising of young children in different countries. The authors of the report comprised two teams: a Portuguese team lead by Analia Torres and an Austrian team lead by Barbara Haas. The report can be found as D4 in the Reports and Publications section.

Workpackage 5: Qualitative Interviews with Households

This workpackage was concerned with carrying out qualitative interviews with couples with children below the age of 12 in different European countries. Male and female spouses were interviewed separately and there were also interviews with single parents in each country. The interviews were fully transcribed and translated into English so that other team members also wrote up some of the findings. However, the main findings are communicated in two reports, the first on methodology and the second an analysis of key themes in the interviews using NVivo. The reports, organised by Rosanna Triffiletti and Luca Salmieri can be found as D5a and D5b under the Reports and Publications section.

Workpacakge 6: The role of flexible employment regimes in managing work and care

This workpackage looked firstly at the role of work-family interface in employment relations, secondly at quantitative analysis of flexibility in a range of European countries and thirdly at the policies designed to promote flexibility and manage work and care. The results, edited by Endre Sik can be found in D6 of the section on Reports and Publications

Workpackage 7: Capabilities and Decisions around the Organisation of Time, Care and Employment

This workpackage operationalised a capabilities perspective in analysing households in large scale data sets such as the European Community Household Panel Survey, the Labour Force Survey and the International Social Survey Programme. The results, set out in a series of papers written by Jackie O’Reilly, Tiziana Nazio and John MacInnes can be found under D7 in the Reports and Publications section

Workpackage 8: Social Quality in Work and Care

This workpacakge, written by Claire Wallace and Pamela Abbott uses the European Quality of Life Survey from 2003 and 2007 to look at social quality in work and care. The social quality approach is designed to look at how work and care issues impact on the quality of life and the quality of society. The results can be found under D8 in the Reports and Publications section.

Workpackages 9-12 are concerned with project administration, management, dissemination and evaluation and therefore they are not reported in detail on the website. Dissemination issues can be found under Publicity and Events section of the website.