First-time fathers’ parental leave take-up in Luxembourg: a policy evaluation

This thesis is set in contemporary Luxembourg and examines first-time fathers’ parental leave trajectories during three phases: access to leave, leave take-up and negotiating the leave. Using social security records from 2009 to 2018, the thesis explores the impact of the 2016 reform, focusing on the interplays among workplaces, intra-household negotiations, and first-time fathers’ take-up of parental leave. The first study focuses on the change in eligibility criteria as part of the reform and tests whether eligibility translates into take-up when the right is newly granted. Analyses show an... Mehr ...