Does Mothers’ Parental Leave Uptake Stimulate Continued Employment and Family Formation? Evidence for Belgium
Parental leave schemes undoubtedly facilitate the combination of work and family life during leave-taking. In addition to this instantaneous effect of parental leave uptake, a growing yet limited body of research addresses the question of subsequent effects of parental leave uptake. As work-family policies, such as parental leave, are geared towards stimulating family formation and (female) employment, this study assessed whether the individual uptake of parental leave by employed mothers after the birth of a child yielded differential parity progression and employment patterns compared to eli... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Social Sciences, Vol 8, Iss 10, p 292 (2019) |
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MDPI AG
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Schlagwörter: | family policy / parental leave / policy uptake / parity progression / maternal employment / europe / Social Sciences / H |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26612958 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8100292 |