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Despite the increasing prevalence of dual-earner couples, women still perform the bulk of domestic and parental tasks within the household. In this paper, we investigate the role of the parental model in the persistence of this gender inequality. We study ...

Several news stories in autumn 2013 brought the question of racism in France back to the fore. This document provides new statistical information on how racism is experienced by immigrants and immigrants’ descendants, as well as people from French overseas ...

La taille des fratries est une variable que les études statistiques prennent classiquement en compte, parmi bien d'autres, pour décrire le déroulement des scolarités. Déjà la grande enquête de l'INED du début des années 1960 sur l'entrée en 6ème et ...

Over the past 25 years, men have become more involved in childrearing activities, while their participation in other domestic tasks has remained stable. Women also spend more time in parenting activities than before, but significantly less in housework. They are ...

This paper assesses the extent to which the increase in women’s human capital, as measured by educational attainment, has contributed to economic growth in OECD countries over the past five decades. Using longitudinal cross-country data covering 30 countries from 1960 ...

Cet article analyse la réaction de la participation à l'emploi des femmes aux évolutions des marchés du travail et aux politiques aidant à concilier travail et vie familiale, à partir de données de niveau national concernant 18 pays de l'OCDE ...

This paper discusses the pros and cons of comparative analysis of family policies. It starts by presenting key family and work outcomes, and basic differences in family policies that have drawn attention of scientists and policy makers to the needs ...

Paid parental leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades with the growing participation of mothers in the workforce. Indeed, the average number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries increased from 17 in 1980 ...

From a survey by in-depth interviews conducted with 40 homo/bi-sexuals in Iceland in 2005, this work analyzes the different stages of the coming out through the societal conditions that respondents have encountered during their self coming out and coming out. ...

Ce document de travail rassemble les communications présentées lors de la Journée Doctorale de l'Institut National d'Études Démographiques qui s'est tenue le 30 juin 2011. Dix doctorants, tous accueillis à l'Institut et à différentes étapes de leur cheminement de thèse, ...