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China’s demographic shift is worrying policymakers but in the short term, the labor force remains sufficient and business opportunities are emerging in new subsectors. [Yi Wu – China [...]

As children from less educated families perform significantly worse than the children of the more educated, it is far less likely their relative economic situation in adulthood will exceed that [...]

America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking for the rich, who are buying more free time, but unfortunately that’s not the case for the average American worker.  [Bryan Robinson [...]

Speech by Ignacio Socias on ‘Parenting education: The challenge of work and family integration to achieve family wellbeing’ at the side Event ‘Towards full and productive employment and decent [...]

The annual Membership Meeting of the Non-Governmental Committee on UNICEF took place on Thursday, February 2nd, at the UNICEF House in New York. The meeting is an opportunity to increase [...]

There are many obstacles to enabling more fathers to share childcare at least equally with their partners, and to ease the challenges for families. [Paul Hodkinson and Rachel Brooks – The [...]

With recent reports highlighting growing employee desire for balance, this article explores whether downtime could be worth its weight in gold for businesses that can’t increase salaries. [...]

Is marriage merely a private institution, only between two people and therefore nobody else’s business? Or is marriage actually a very public institution in which it serves a much larger public [...]

Family leave policies, though limited in scope and typically unpaid in the U.S., have hamstrung the progress toward gender wage parity since the 1990s, according to an economic paper. [Catarina [...]

For some time it’s been clear to us that when you’ve got an ageing population, the absolute best thing you can get is a higher fertility rate. [ABC News, 2 January 2023.] READ MORE