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Comparative welfare research, social policy, migration and gender
Spain

Biography

Margarita León (https://uab.academia.edu/MargaritaLeon), is Full Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain. BA in Sociology University of Alicante (1994); MA in Sociological Research, University of Essex (England) (1995-96) and PhD London School of Economics (2000). Between 2000 and 2003 she had been a Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow at the Robert Schuman for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). In August 2004 she was appointed Lecturer in European social policy at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) of the University of Kent (England) where she obtained tenure in 2006. She held a Senior ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Fellowship at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (Spain) (2010-2015). She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Berkeley, California (2018). Her main areas of research are comparative public policy and welfare state reform.She has published in numerous international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has co-edited with Ana M. Guillén The SpanishWelfare State in European Context (2011 Ashgate) and edited The Transformation of Care in European Societies (2014) Palgrave. She is co-chair of the Spanish Social Policy Research Network (REPS). In 2018 she was awarded ICREA ACADEMIA for a 5 year period for excellence in research (https://www.icrea.cat/es/icrea-academia).

Activities

Employment (4)

Universitat Autonoma Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2016-04-01 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Political Science)
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Barcelona, ES

2010-08-01 to 2015-07-01 | Post doc ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Individual Senior Research Grants (Institut de Govern i Polítiques públiques (IGOP-UAB))
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University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, GB

2004-09 to 2010-07 | Lecturer in European Social Policy (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR))
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European University Institute: Florence, IT

2001-03 to 2003-03 | Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellowship (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS))
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Education and qualifications (2)

London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

1996-01 to 2000-11 | PhD in social policy (Social Policy)
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Essex University: Colchester, GB

1994-09 to 1995-09 | Master of Arts (MA) Sociological Research
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Professional activities (1)

University of California Berkeley Research: Berkeley, CA, US

2018-04-01 to 2018-09-01 | Fullbright Scholar (Center for Comparative Family Welfare and Poverty Research)
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Funding (19)

Investing in the Early Years Welfare State Reform: Ideas, Institutions and Politics

2018-05-01 to 2018-08-01 | Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington D.C., US)
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Inversión en la temprana infancia: política, políticas y resultados (ECECWEL)

2018 to 2021 | Grant
Ministerio de Economía Indústria y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
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(ECECWEL) CSO2017-88906-R

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The young as a driver of social change (PROMISE)

2016-05 to 2019-05 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelles, BE)
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Multi Agency Training Exit Strategies for Radicalized Youth (MATES)

2016-01 to 2018-06 | Grant
European Commission. Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs/International Security Fund Police (Bruxelles, BE)
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Empleo y Fertilidad: Obstáculos, oportunidades y desafíos de las mujeres españolas frente a la maternidad

2014-12 to 2015-06 | Grant
FUNCAS (Federación Cajas Ahorros) (Madrid, ES)
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Analysis, Management and Evaluation of Public Policies

2014-01 to 2016-12 | Grant
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (Barcelona, ES)
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Mobile Identities: Migration and Integration in Transnational Communitites

2014-01 to 2016-06 | Grant
European Commission & European Fund for the Integration of third country nationals. (Bruxelles, BE)
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Welfare Capitalism in Southern Europe –CABISE-

2013-01 to 2015-12 | Grant
Spanish Ministry of Economy (Madrid, ES)
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The Social Organisation of Care. Spain in comparative perspective (SOSC)

2012-01 to 2015-06 | Grant
Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Madrid, ES)
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Active Aging, Citizenship and Participation: Assessing the aspirations, needs and strategies related to autonomy and empowerment of old and new generations of elderly people in Spain

2012-01 to 2014-12 | Grant
Spanish High Council for Research (Fundación General CSIC. Convocatoria Proyectos Cero) (Madrid, ES)
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Looking for a Job? Youth at Risk of Social Exclusion

2012-01 to 2013-12 | Grant
RecerCaixa 2011 (Catalan private funding body) (Barcelona, ES)
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Social Sciences Korea

2010-09 to 2015-09 | Grant
National Research Foundation of Korea Social Science (Daejeon, KR)
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Understanding care and migration regimes. A transnational perspective.

2010-08 to 2015-07 | Grant
Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. (Madrid, ES)
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Spain and Italy: As Similar as Thought? A comparative Reflection on Living arrangements and Family relationships

2010-01 to 2012-03 | Grant
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, ES)
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Migrant Workers and Household Work

2007-01 to 2008-12 | Grant
British Academy (London, GB)
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Contract Number: SG-48482

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The Organisation of Social Care in Europe: Migrant Care Workers in Perspective

2007 to present | Grant
University of Kent Faculty Grant (Kent, Canterbury, GB)
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Policies for the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life

2001-01 to 2003-02 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelles, BE)
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Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base, 5th FP. Contract N. HPMF-CT-2000-00814

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The Gender Dimension of the Spanish Social Protection System (PhD)

1996-10 to 2000-09 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelles, BE)
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CLOSING GAPS IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP (EUROSHIP)

Contract
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (BRUSSELS, ES)
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870698

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Works (50 of 80)

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Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain

Journal of European Social Policy
2025-01-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Dani M. Marinova; Margarita León
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Moving away from, moving towards and moving against others: An adaptive multi-strategy approach to defend and build resources in self-protection mode

Journal of Vocational Behavior
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Emma Russell; Jacqueline O'Reilly; Constantin Blome; Margherita Bussi; Heejung Chung; Mark Finney; Hakan Johansson; Margarita Leon; Janine Leschke; Lucia Mytna-Kurekova et al.
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Flexible work arrangements for work-life balance

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
2023 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Carla Brega; Samuel Briones; Jana Javornik; Margarita León; Mara Yerkes
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Intersectional inequalities and minimum income schemes

EUROSHIP Working Paper
2023 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: Zyab Ibáñez; Llorenç Soler Buades; Margarita León; Lara Maestripieri
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Trapped in a Blind Spot: The Covid-19 Crisis in Nursing Homes in Italy and Spain

Social Policy and Society
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Margarita León; Marco Arlotti; David Palomera; Costanzo Ranci
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Governmentality Versus Community

International Journal of Community Well-Being
2023-05-09 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Claire Wallace; Lucia Mytna-Kurekova; Margarita León; Jacqueline O’Reilly; Constantin Blome; Margarita Bussi; Becky Faith; Mark Finney; Janine Leschke; Chiara Ruffa et al.
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¿Quién gana y quién pierde?

Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, REIS
2023-04 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Lara Navarro-Varas
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The Growth and Consequences of Quasi-markets in Long-Term Care

The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course
2023-02-23 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: David Palomera Zaidel; Margarita León
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Care and the analysis of welfare states

2022-07-15 | Book chapter
Contributors: Mary Daly; Margarita León
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Entre la equidad y la conciliación

Papers
2022-07-12 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: David Palomera; Margarita León; Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan; Zyab Ibáñez; Lucía Martínez-Virto
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Presentation. Who Benefits from childcare expansion?

Papers: Revista de Sociologia
2022-07-12 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Lara Maestripieri; Margarita León
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Different Paths to Social Investment? The Politics of Social Investment in NORTH EAST Asia and Southern Europe

The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I
2022-06 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9780197585276
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Contributors: Margarita León; Margarita Estévez-Abe
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Domestic policy analysis by international actors

Policy Analysis in Spain
2022-04-29 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781447353768
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Contributors: Oriol Costa; Margarita León
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Explaining Morality Policy Coalitions in Spanish Parliamentary Votes: The Interaction of the Church-State Conflict and Territorial Politics

South European Society and Politics
2022-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Margarita León; Manuel Alvariño; Llorenç Soler-Buades
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Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain

Comparative European Politics
2022-04-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Ana M. Guillén; Margarita León; Emmanuele Pavolini
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Cambio y crisis. Nuevas políticas sociales en tiempos de Pandemia

Las administraciones ante los riesgos sociales y globales
2021 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-84-7351-716-4
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Contributors: Margarita León
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Estado de Bienestar y jóvenes

Gaceta Sindical. Reflexión y Debate.
2021 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León
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Policy Change and Partisan Politics

Social Politics
2021 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Emmanuele Pavolini; Joan Miró; Antonino Sorrenti
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In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe

Social Policy & Administration
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Amílcar Moreira; Margarita Léon; Flavia Coda Moscarola; Antonios Roumpakis
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Las huellas sociales de la pandemia

Documentación social: Revista de sociología aplicada
2020 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León
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Igualdad de Género y Seguridad Social

Papeles de Economía Española
2019 | Journal article | Author
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Tensions between quantity and quality in social investment agendas: Working conditions of ECEC teaching staff in Italy and Spain

Journal of European social policy
2019-10-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; ZYAB LUIS IBANEZ GARZARAN; Costanzo Ranci; Stefania Sabatinelli
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So close, so far? Part-time employment and its effects on gender equality in Italy and Spain

Dualisation of Part-Time Work
2019-06-26 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Lara Maestripieri; Margarita León
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Tensions between quality and quantity in social investment strategies: working conditions of ECEC teaching staff in Italy and Spain

Journal of European Social Policy
2018-11-09 | Journal article
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Invertir en la temprana infancia

Repensar las políticas sociales: predistribución e inversión social
2017 | Book chapter | Author
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Social Investment and Childcare Expansion. A Perfect Match?

The Uses of Social Investment, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 118-128.
2017 | Book chapter
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Social innovation, reciprocity and contentious politics: Facing the socio-urban crisis in Ciutat Meridiana, Barcelona

Urban Studies
2017-07-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Ismael Blanco; Margarita León
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Empleo y maternidad: obstáculos y desafíos a la conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar

FUNCAS
2016 | Book
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Gender and Disadvantage

Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 223-241
2016 | Book chapter
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When Flexibility meets Familialism: two tales of gendered labour markets Journal of European Social Policy

Journal of European Social Policy Vol 16: 344-357.
2016 | Journal article
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When flexibility meets familialism: Two tales of gendered labour markets in Spain and South Korea

Journal of European Social Policy
2016-10-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Young Jun Choi; Jong Soon Ahn
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Social Innovation, reciprocity and contentious politics: facing the socio-urban crisis in Ciutat Meridiana, Barcelona

Urban Studies Journal Vol. 54(9): 2172-2188. (Q1IF: 1.934 in 2015 Web of Science Data) Published online first July 2016
2016-07 | Journal article
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Cross-national variations in care and care as a labour market

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2016-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Emmanuele Pavolini; Tine Rostgaard
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Early childhood education and care provision in Spain

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2016-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Zyab Ibáñez; Margarita León
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Pressures towards and within universalism: Conceptualising change in care policy and discourse

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2016-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Costanzo Ranci; Tine Rostgaard
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Similar trends, different responses: The transformation of care in European societies

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2016-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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From Austerity to Strain: welfare state reform in Italy and Spain

Comparative European Politics 13, 56-76.
2015 | Journal article
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Igualdad de género y políticas sociales

Informe CIS Situación Social Española
2015 | Book chapter
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Welfare Rescaling in Italy and Spain: Political Strategies to deal with harsh austerity

European Journal of Social Security Vol.17(2):182-201.
2015 | Journal article
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Welfare Rescaling in Italy and Spain

European Journal of Social Security
2015-06-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Emmanuele Pavolini; Ana M. Guillén
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Trends and dilemmas with the investing in children paradigm

2015-01-15 | Conference paper
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From austerity to permanent strain?

Comparative European Politics
2015-01-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Emmanuele Pavolini; Ana M. Guillén; Ugo Ascoli
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Actors, discourses and institutional adaptations: explaining convergence and divergence in European Care Regimes

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2014 | Book chapter
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Cross-national variations in care

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2014 | Book chapter
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Early Childhood Education and Care Provision in Spain

The Transformation of Care in European Societies
2014 | Book chapter
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Políticas de igualdad de género y sociales en España

Investigaciones feministas (Revista)
2014 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Margarita León; Emanuela Lombardo
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Políticas de igualdad de género y sociales en España: origen, desarrollo y desmantelamiento en un contexto de crisis económica

Investigaciones Feministas, vol. 5, pp. 13-35.
2014 | Journal issue or edition
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Social Investment or back to Familialism? The impact of the economic crisis on family policies in Southern Europe

South European Society and Politics
2014 | Journal article
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The Transformation of Care in European Societies

Palgrave Macmillan
2014 | Book
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Assessment of qualitative indicators in ECEC in seven European countries

2014-04 | Conference paper
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