POLITIQUES DE CONCILIATION DU TRAVAIL ET DE LA VIE FAMILIALE EN EUROPE: QUELLE(S) COMPLÉMENTARITÉ(S) DES AIDES PUBLIQUES ET D’ENTREPRISES?

This paper analyses the variations in policies aiming at reconciling work and family life in Europe. We especially examine how public policy is completed by employers support in childcare services and flexible working time practices. Differences in this latter support are part of the variations in patterns of reconciliation between work and family. In particular, Nordic countries differ with a higher propensity of employers to provide very flexible working time schedule. This is added to a higher public support offered to parents with a child under age of preschool. Countries with the lowest fertility and female employment rates are those where all kinds of support are more limited, or where they are not complementary