Clémence Ledoux

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors, and focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and nonstate actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets.

TL;DR: In the 1990s, women were overrepresented among the oldest sections of the French population, as well as a large proportion of the women working in the French workforce as mentioned in this paper, which is the case today.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the evolution of the reconciliation issue in the European Union and highlight the diverse and evolving meanings of the issue and its orientation, which allows for greater room for manoeuvre at the domestic level and even more diverse patterns of national usages of Europe.

TL;DR: For example, the tax-deductible household services in the country of France can benefit from a 50% tax reduction on the costs incurred, up to a ceiling currently (in 2015) set at €12,000 as discussed by the authors.