Almudena Moreno-Mínguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 297193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Almudena Moreno-Mínguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Almudena |
| FAMILY NAME | Moreno-Mínguez |
| SIGNATURE | MORENO-MÍNGUEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Valladolid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1839-0508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Afecto y control paterno/materno filial según el discurso de los hijos e hijas
Múltiples artículos concluyen que los hijos/as perciben el modo de crianza del padre diferente al de la madre. El objetivo de este artículo es conocer si el género y la situación laboral son variables que condicionan las relaciones afectivas y el control paterno/ materno filial. De acuerdo con una metodología cualitativa/estructural, se realizaron tres grupos de discusión, participando en cada uno de ellos cuatro niños y cuatro niñas entre 12 y 1…
Evolución De La Tendencia en La Mortalidad Por Vih Según Área De Residencia en España a Lo Largo De Dos Décadas
Heavy Drinking by Occupation in Spain: Differences Between Weekdays and the Weekend
Empleo de la mujer y familia en los regímenes de bienestar del sur de Europa en perspectiva comparada. Permanencia del modelo de varón sustentador
En este artículo se analiza desde una perspectiva comparada la asociación existente para los países del sur de Europa (España, Italia y Grecia) entre la persistencia de formas familiares tradicionales como la familia extensa -basadas en la solidaridad, dependencia familiar- y las políticas familiares y de empleo. Con tal fin se estudia cómo la permanencia de estrategias familiares asociadas con la reducida participación laboral de la mujer y el m…
Father’s parental leave use in Spain: The effect of education in the household
Producción Científica
Divorcio de los padres y logro educativo de los niños a largo plazo en España: Heterogeneidad Según La Educación De Los Padres
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la asociación entre el divorcio de los padres durante la infancia y el logro de estudiosuniversitarios de los hijos para el caso de España, según el estatus socioeconómico de los padres. Para ello, estimamos modelosde probabilidad lineal a partir de los datos de la Encuesta Social General Española de los años 2013, 2015 y 2017. Los resultadosevidencian una asociación negativa entre el divorcio de los pad…
Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation
This article presents novel empirical evidence of fathers' parental leave usage by introducing a family dimension in Spain. To test this hypothesis, a bivariate probit estimation was used to analyse the effect of the mother's labour force participation on the father's decision to take parental leave. This procedure allowed us to address the issue of simultaneous factors affecting the decisions of both the man and the woman, which were relevant to…
Impact of Joint Physical Custody and Best Interest of the Child: Reflections from a Critical Review of Empirical Studies
The main goal of this study is to perform a critical literature review of empirical research that measures the effects of joint physical custody (JPC) on children’s and parents’ wellbeing from a sociological perspective. Its focus is Spain in the scope of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). The studies reviewed show no consensus on terminology that best expresses the condition of JPC, definition of the concept of JPC, or what it is meant by …
Single-Parent Families, Educational Gradient, and Child Deprivation: The Cases of Italy and Spain
This work examines whether the increase of single parenthood in Italy and Spain, specifically amongst women in an unfavourable socioeconomic position, has repercussions for child well-being, understood here as material deprivation. In particular, our main objective is to analyse the possible differential impact of single parenthood on children's material deprivation in relation to mothers' level of education. Using the 2014 EU-SILC Module on mate…
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
Trends and equity in the use of health services in Spain and Germany around austerity in Europe
In both Spain and Germany, service use decreased between 2009 and 2017. In the first few years, this reduction coincided with a period of austerity in Spain. In general, we did not find socioeconomic differences in health service use
Estructura familiar, deterioro del mercado laboral y desigualdad en España para el período 2008-2017
En este artículo se estudia cómo el deterioro del mercado de trabajo español, a raíz de la crisis económica del año 2008, ha repercutido en la desigualdad laboral y económica de los hogares según la estructura familiar. Para ello, a partir de los datos de la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida, comparamos la situación de los hogares monoparentales y biparentales en términos de intensidad laboral y bajos ingresos por trabajo. Los principales resultado…
Hacia una sociedad igualitaria: Valores familiares y género en los jóvenes en Alemania, Noruega y España
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo inciden las variables socio-demográficas en los valores familiares y laborales entre los jóvenes de 18 a 35 años en Alemania, Noruega y España, países con diferentes modelos familiares, Estados de bienestar y roles de género. El artículo trata, por tanto, de cubrir el vacío existente en la literatura sobre los valores familiares y de género entre los jóvenes, tratando de ir más allá de la perspectiva …
Erosion of universal health coverage and trend in the frequency of physician consultations in Spain
The restriction of universal healthcare coverage in Spain did not reduce the frequency of physician visits between 2009 and 2014, as the frequency of these consultations was seen to increase in both the native and immigrant populations
European Youth Labour Markets
The Generational Dimension in Transitions: A Theoretical Review
The aim of this article is to question the notions of ‘generation’ and ‘transitions’ from a theoretical perspective by making a brief historical incursion into the sociology of generations. This review will explore the latest ideas on youth transitions to establish theoretical bridges between the different authors, and between the classic and modern approaches. It also takes a deeper look at an emerging theoretical model that seeks to connect the…
The youth emancipation in Spain: A socio-demographic analysis
This article presents a critical discussion of the socio-demographic factors which determine leaving parental home and provides new empirical evidence of gendered differences in leaving the parental home in Spain. The study is based on a subsample of young people 19 to 29 years old included in the Youth 2012 survey, which was carried out in Spain by the Youth Institute. Our findings address the importance of employment status, having a partner, a…
Well-being and living arrangement of elderly people from European comparative perspective
Recent decades have seen numerous changes in family structures and typologies in response to the progressive ageing of the population. The main aim of this analysis is to explore how the structure of the households where people live affects their quality of life and well-being. The analysis presented here is based on data from the countries participating in the third wave of the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) in 2012. The methodological a…
A Socio-Structural Perspective on Family Model Preferences, Gender Roles and Work-Family Attitudes in Spain
Since the early 1990s, the diversity of work-family arrangement models has increased in Spain. It is difficult to understand this phenomenon without attending to the Spanish population's preferences for such models. This article analyses the attitudes towards gender roles, and family model preferences within a normative and socio-structural framework. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2012, we developed descriptive and exp…
Understanding the Impact of Economic Crisis on Inequality, Household Structure, and Family Support in Spain from a Comparative Perspective
This article examines the impact of the economic crisis on household income and on the protective role of Spanish families in the context of the current crisis using a descriptive and comparative perspective. The methodology used for this purpose is based on the use of comparative data from several international statistical sources. The findings presented show that the economic recession has increased inequality and poverty in Spain—particularly …
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
Interpretando la emigración de los jóvenes españoles en un contexto de crisis económica
Este artículo trata sobre los efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad internacional de los jóvenes españoles desde una perspectiva crítica. Las dificultades para encontrar empleo derivadas de la crisis económica han propiciado un cambio sin precedentes en la movilidad internacional de los jóvenes españoles. Los resultados recogidos en este artículo apuntan a un relativo declive de la población joven debido a la reducción de la fecundidad y…
Future perspectives on work and family dynamics in Southern Europe: The Importance of Culture and Regional Contexts
The Southern countries model (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece) take a specific family-oriented approach to work–family reconciliation. They are family-oriented in that they entrust the family with more responsibilities that in other countries. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to encourage women’s labour-market participation; this results in the poor development of exte…
Explorando El Significado Cultural De La Nueva Ruralidad en Castilla Y León: Un Caso De Estudio Inexplorado
Los resultados que se muestran, a continuacin, son el resultado del trabajo de investigacin realizado en una zona rural de montaa en la Comunidad de Castilla y Len en Espaa, concretamente en el "Guadarrama segoviano" desde un enfoque socioantropolgico. La metodologa de investigacin aplicada en este estudio se ha basado en el anlisis documental y la realizacin de entrevistas abiertas semiestructuradas a informantes estratgicos sobre las tradicione…
Los modelos familiares en España: Reflexionando sobre la ambivalencia familiar desde una aproximación teórica
The family changes in Spain in recent decades\nhave generated a fruitful theoretical and empirical\ndebate on the new family forms. Based on the\nfindings of international studies on attitudes and\nfamily values, the main objective of the present\nstudy is to carry out an exhaustive scientific literature\nreview about the family models in Spain\nin order to offer a proposal of the theoretical models\nthat could contribute to the empirical future\…
The Transition to Adulthood in Spain in a Comparative Perspective: The Incidence of Structural Factors
This article sets out to describe and comparatively identify the possible economic, institutional and cultural factors that take part in the process of transition to adulthood, with particular emphasis on factors that explain why young people in Spain leave the parental home late in life. To do this, a number of indicators have been selected and made up using data from different international statistical sources. The results obtained suggest that…
Family and Gender Roles in Spain From a Comparative Perspective
The aim of this paper will be to analyse changes in family and gender roles in Spain within the process of individualization in the European context. The focus is thus to evaluate the extent to which institutional factors (family policies) and individual factors interact in the development of cultural models that explain differences in preferences and family and labour strategies adopted by citizens. With the objective of determining to what exte…
The Role of Family Policy in Explaining the International Variation in Child Subjective Well-Being
Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation
This article presents novel empirical evidence of fathers' parental leave usage by introducing a family dimension in Spain. To test this hypothesis, a bivariate probit estimation was used to analyse the effect of the mother's labour force participation on the father's decision to take parental leave. This procedure allowed us to address the issue of simultaneous factors affecting the decisions of both the man and the woman, which were relevant to…
Gender, family and care provision in developing countries: Towards gender equality
This article describes the way in which the scientific literature approaches the issue of gender and care in developing countries, and also examines some of the main analytical trends which have contributed to this debate. The analysis of the documentation published on this subject is far from exhaustive. These works are also partially biased, and tend to base their analyses of care from a gender perspective in developing countries on certain con…
A Socio-Structural Perspective on Family Model Preferences, Gender Roles and Work-Family Attitudes in Spain
Since the early 1990s, the diversity of work-family arrangement models has increased in Spain. It is difficult to understand this phenomenon without attending to the Spanish population's preferences for such models. This article analyses the attitudes towards gender roles, and family model preferences within a normative and socio-structural framework. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2012, we developed descriptive and exp…
Understanding the Impact of Economic Crisis on Inequality, Household Structure, and Family Support in Spain from a Comparative Perspective
This article examines the impact of the economic crisis on household income and on the protective role of Spanish families in the context of the current crisis using a descriptive and comparative perspective. The methodology used for this purpose is based on the use of comparative data from several international statistical sources. The findings presented show that the economic recession has increased inequality and poverty in Spain—particularly …
El reducido empleo femenino en los Estados del bienestar del sur de Europa. Un análisis comparado
El análisis se contextualiza en el marco teórico referido a los estudios comparados sobre los regímenes de bienestar y de género. Las investigaciones realizadas a tal efecto tienden a apuntar que el reducido empleo femenino que caracteriza a los países del entorno mediterráneo (fundamentalmente España e Italia) está vinculado con las políticas familiares, laborales y de género desarrolladas por los respectivos Estados de bienestar. En este estudi…
Empleo de la mujer y familia en los regímenes de bienestar del sur de Europa en perspectiva comparada. Permanencia del modelo de varón sustentador
En este artículo se analiza desde una perspectiva comparada la asociación existente para los países del sur de Europa (España, Italia y Grecia) entre la persistencia de formas familiares tradicionales como la familia extensa -basadas en la solidaridad, dependencia familiar- y las políticas familiares y de empleo. Con tal fin se estudia cómo la permanencia de estrategias familiares asociadas con la reducida participación laboral de la mujer y el m…
Hacia una sociedad igualitaria: Valores familiares y género en los jóvenes en Alemania, Noruega y España
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo inciden las variables socio-demográficas en los valores familiares y laborales entre los jóvenes de 18 a 35 años en Alemania, Noruega y España, países con diferentes modelos familiares, Estados de bienestar y roles de género. El artículo trata, por tanto, de cubrir el vacío existente en la literatura sobre los valores familiares y de género entre los jóvenes, tratando de ir más allá de la perspectiva …
The decline of the male breadwinner family model versus the persistence of gendered unpaid work in Spain
Based on a careful review of the theoretical and empirical literature on comparative gender studies, this article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the relationship between women’s labour market participation and the gender-specific division of household work. Its main finding is that there is a persistence of the gendered division of unpaid work despite the erosion of the male breadwinner family model in Spain. The empirical analysi…
Father’s parental leave use in Spain: The effect of education in the household
Producción Científica
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
Single-Parent Families, Educational Gradient, and Child Deprivation: The Cases of Italy and Spain
This work examines whether the increase of single parenthood in Italy and Spain, specifically amongst women in an unfavourable socioeconomic position, has repercussions for child well-being, understood here as material deprivation. In particular, our main objective is to analyse the possible differential impact of single parenthood on children's material deprivation in relation to mothers' level of education. Using the 2014 EU-SILC Module on mate…
Estructura familiar, deterioro del mercado laboral y desigualdad en España para el período 2008-2017
En este artículo se estudia cómo el deterioro del mercado de trabajo español, a raíz de la crisis económica del año 2008, ha repercutido en la desigualdad laboral y económica de los hogares según la estructura familiar. Para ello, a partir de los datos de la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida, comparamos la situación de los hogares monoparentales y biparentales en términos de intensidad laboral y bajos ingresos por trabajo. Los principales resultado…
Well-being and living arrangement of elderly people from European comparative perspective
Recent decades have seen numerous changes in family structures and typologies in response to the progressive ageing of the population. The main aim of this analysis is to explore how the structure of the households where people live affects their quality of life and well-being. The analysis presented here is based on data from the countries participating in the third wave of the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) in 2012. The methodological a…
Late Leaving of the Parental Home in Southern Europe: Lessons for Youth Policy
This article focuses on describing the late leaving of the parental home of young people in five European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovenia) from a cross country perspective. In order to achieve this objective, the author has identified several factors related to the late leaving of the parental home in relation to the age norms, the youth policy and the economical family support. The descriptive analysis uses data from vario…
Familia, empleo femenino y reproducción en España: Incidencia De Los Factores Estructurales
L’objectiu general d’aquest article és presentar les tendències comparades relatives a l’ocupació femenina i la reproducció a Europa en relació amb les tipologies familiars. En el marc d’aquest objectiu general, el treball es proposa, d’una banda, estimar els factors que millor expliquen el declivi del model familiar de l’home sustentador en els països europeus seleccionats. D’altra banda, i en relació amb el primer propòsit, l’article analitza e…
Las familias monoparentales en España
El aumento progresivo de nuevas formas de familia como la monoparentalidad moderna cuestiona la legitimidad del tradicional modelo de Estado de Bienestar, cuyo pilar fundamental se basaba en la estabilidad de la familia nuclear biparental asimétrica. Por ello, el objeto de este trabajo es presentar las relaciones existentes entre familias monoparentales y Estado de Bienestar en España. Los distintos trabajos de investigación realizados sobre las …
Las familias monoparentales en España
El aumento progresivo de nuevas formas de familia como la monoparentalidad moderna cuestiona la legitimidad del tradicional modelo de Estado de Bienestar, cuyo pilar fundamental se basaba en la estabilidad de la familia nuclear biparental asimétrica. Por ello, el objeto de este trabajo es presentar las relaciones existentes entre familias monoparentales y Estado de Bienestar en España. Los distintos trabajos de investigación realizados sobre las …
Del sur de Europa en perspectiva comparada. Permanencia del modelo de varón sustentador (A Comparative View of Working and the Family in the Welfare Systems of Southern Europe. The Continuance of the …
Almudena Moreno Mínguez, Del sur de Europa en perspectiva comparada. Permanencia del modelo de varón sustentador (A Comparative View of Working and the Family in the Welfare Systems of Southern Europe. The Continuance of the Male Breadwinner), Reis: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, No. 112 (Oct. - Dec., 2005), pp. 131-163
Incidencia de las políticas familiares en el empleo femenino en los estados de bienestar del sur de Europa en perspectiva comparada
L’objectiu d’aquest article és presentar les troballes més rellevants d’una investigació comparada feta sobre la incidència que ha tingut el desenvolupament de les polítiques familiars dutes a terme pels diferents estats del benestar en el treball femení. La hipòtesi de partida que ha guiat aquesta investigació es refereix al fet que, als països del sud d’Europa (Espanya, Grècia i Itàlia), el limitat desenvolupament institucional que han tingut l…
El reducido empleo femenino en los Estados del bienestar del sur de Europa. Un análisis comparado
El análisis se contextualiza en el marco teórico referido a los estudios comparados sobre los regímenes de bienestar y de género. Las investigaciones realizadas a tal efecto tienden a apuntar que el reducido empleo femenino que caracteriza a los países del entorno mediterráneo (fundamentalmente España e Italia) está vinculado con las políticas familiares, laborales y de género desarrolladas por los respectivos Estados de bienestar. En este estudi…
Family and Gender Roles in Spain From a Comparative Perspective
The aim of this paper will be to analyse changes in family and gender roles in Spain within the process of individualization in the European context. The focus is thus to evaluate the extent to which institutional factors (family policies) and individual factors interact in the development of cultural models that explain differences in preferences and family and labour strategies adopted by citizens. With the objective of determining to what exte…
Familia, empleo femenino y reproducción en España: Incidencia De Los Factores Estructurales
L’objectiu general d’aquest article és presentar les tendències comparades relatives a l’ocupació femenina i la reproducció a Europa en relació amb les tipologies familiars. En el marc d’aquest objectiu general, el treball es proposa, d’una banda, estimar els factors que millor expliquen el declivi del model familiar de l’home sustentador en els països europeus seleccionats. D’altra banda, i en relació amb el primer propòsit, l’article analitza e…
Gender, family and care provision in developing countries: Towards gender equality
This article describes the way in which the scientific literature approaches the issue of gender and care in developing countries, and also examines some of the main analytical trends which have contributed to this debate. The analysis of the documentation published on this subject is far from exhaustive. These works are also partially biased, and tend to base their analyses of care from a gender perspective in developing countries on certain con…
The Transition to Adulthood in Spain in a Comparative Perspective: The Incidence of Structural Factors
This article sets out to describe and comparatively identify the possible economic, institutional and cultural factors that take part in the process of transition to adulthood, with particular emphasis on factors that explain why young people in Spain leave the parental home late in life. To do this, a number of indicators have been selected and made up using data from different international statistical sources. The results obtained suggest that…
The decline of the male breadwinner family model versus the persistence of gendered unpaid work in Spain
Based on a careful review of the theoretical and empirical literature on comparative gender studies, this article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the relationship between women’s labour market participation and the gender-specific division of household work. Its main finding is that there is a persistence of the gendered division of unpaid work despite the erosion of the male breadwinner family model in Spain. The empirical analysi…
Los modelos familiares en España: Reflexionando sobre la ambivalencia familiar desde una aproximación teórica
The family changes in Spain in recent decades\nhave generated a fruitful theoretical and empirical\ndebate on the new family forms. Based on the\nfindings of international studies on attitudes and\nfamily values, the main objective of the present\nstudy is to carry out an exhaustive scientific literature\nreview about the family models in Spain\nin order to offer a proposal of the theoretical models\nthat could contribute to the empirical future\…
Children’s services in Spain: A study of the organisation and implementation of children’s services in three regions in response to European recommendations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map the current organisation and implementation of children’s services in three regions of Spain, to identify strengths and gaps and to suggest proposals for improvement in line with European recommendations. Design/methodology/approach Spain features a decentralised approach when it comes to the organisation of children’s services. This means that relevant themes for children’s services refer to decentrali…
Late Leaving of the Parental Home in Southern Europe: Lessons for Youth Policy
This article focuses on describing the late leaving of the parental home of young people in five European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovenia) from a cross country perspective. In order to achieve this objective, the author has identified several factors related to the late leaving of the parental home in relation to the age norms, the youth policy and the economical family support. The descriptive analysis uses data from vario…
The Role of Family Policy in Explaining the International Variation in Child Subjective Well-Being
Understanding the Impact of Economic Crisis on Inequality, Household Structure, and Family Support in Spain from a Comparative Perspective
This article examines the impact of the economic crisis on household income and on the protective role of Spanish families in the context of the current crisis using a descriptive and comparative perspective. The methodology used for this purpose is based on the use of comparative data from several international statistical sources. The findings presented show that the economic recession has increased inequality and poverty in Spain—particularly …
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
Interpretando la emigración de los jóvenes españoles en un contexto de crisis económica
Este artículo trata sobre los efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad internacional de los jóvenes españoles desde una perspectiva crítica. Las dificultades para encontrar empleo derivadas de la crisis económica han propiciado un cambio sin precedentes en la movilidad internacional de los jóvenes españoles. Los resultados recogidos en este artículo apuntan a un relativo declive de la población joven debido a la reducción de la fecundidad y…
Future perspectives on work and family dynamics in Southern Europe: The Importance of Culture and Regional Contexts
The Southern countries model (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece) take a specific family-oriented approach to work–family reconciliation. They are family-oriented in that they entrust the family with more responsibilities that in other countries. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to encourage women’s labour-market participation; this results in the poor development of exte…
Explorando El Significado Cultural De La Nueva Ruralidad en Castilla Y León: Un Caso De Estudio Inexplorado
Los resultados que se muestran, a continuacin, son el resultado del trabajo de investigacin realizado en una zona rural de montaa en la Comunidad de Castilla y Len en Espaa, concretamente en el "Guadarrama segoviano" desde un enfoque socioantropolgico. La metodologa de investigacin aplicada en este estudio se ha basado en el anlisis documental y la realizacin de entrevistas abiertas semiestructuradas a informantes estratgicos sobre las tradicione…
European Youth Labour Markets
The Generational Dimension in Transitions: A Theoretical Review
The aim of this article is to question the notions of ‘generation’ and ‘transitions’ from a theoretical perspective by making a brief historical incursion into the sociology of generations. This review will explore the latest ideas on youth transitions to establish theoretical bridges between the different authors, and between the classic and modern approaches. It also takes a deeper look at an emerging theoretical model that seeks to connect the…
The youth emancipation in Spain: A socio-demographic analysis
This article presents a critical discussion of the socio-demographic factors which determine leaving parental home and provides new empirical evidence of gendered differences in leaving the parental home in Spain. The study is based on a subsample of young people 19 to 29 years old included in the Youth 2012 survey, which was carried out in Spain by the Youth Institute. Our findings address the importance of employment status, having a partner, a…
Well-being and living arrangement of elderly people from European comparative perspective
Recent decades have seen numerous changes in family structures and typologies in response to the progressive ageing of the population. The main aim of this analysis is to explore how the structure of the households where people live affects their quality of life and well-being. The analysis presented here is based on data from the countries participating in the third wave of the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) in 2012. The methodological a…
A Socio-Structural Perspective on Family Model Preferences, Gender Roles and Work-Family Attitudes in Spain
Since the early 1990s, the diversity of work-family arrangement models has increased in Spain. It is difficult to understand this phenomenon without attending to the Spanish population's preferences for such models. This article analyses the attitudes towards gender roles, and family model preferences within a normative and socio-structural framework. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2012, we developed descriptive and exp…
Erosion of universal health coverage and trend in the frequency of physician consultations in Spain
The restriction of universal healthcare coverage in Spain did not reduce the frequency of physician visits between 2009 and 2014, as the frequency of these consultations was seen to increase in both the native and immigrant populations
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Economics (16 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 works) · Humanities (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (9 works)