On Oct 24, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
most social democratic nations offering probably the most pro-natalist policy, except that pro-natalist policy seldom ever leads to more children, for women just take the benefits
That's contrary to the standard taxonomy of welfare states, from Esping-Andersen: the social democratic states try to decommodify labor as much as possible, and offer benefits independent of work and marital status, while the Germans and Italians offer benefits through the workplace and keyed to the family. The SocDem states want to make women freer; the continental states want to promote work and family. Doug
