Applying Sens capabilities framework to work family balance within a European context: theoretical and empirical challenges

Abstract: This state of the art has two specific aims: One is to present the dominant theories and identify weaknesses in theories that have sought to explain the processes surrounding the division of time and paid/ unpaid work in families, specifically addressing models of agency and work family balance. The second and main purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework and set of indicators for analyzing agency and work family balance in a complex and multi-layered universe of constraints and possibilities, of rights and capabilities to exercise them. This framework derives its inspiration from Amartya Sens framework on capabilities and agency freedom and much of the paper will be devoted to discussing the framework and the theoretical and empirical challenges that it poses for comparative welfare state research with a multi-level approach, that integrates the individual/ household level, supra-national and national policy level and firm/ work organizational level. The paper t

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 47 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe ; Bd. REC-WP 03/2009

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Edinburgh
• (when): 2009
• Creator: Hobson, Barbara ; Fahlén, Susanne
• Contributor: University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-198251
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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