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Longer shared parental leave is associated with longer duration of breastfeeding: a cross-sectional study among Swedish mothers and their partners

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background Breastfeeding is associated with health benefits for both the mother and infant and is therefore important to support; moreover, parental leave is a beneficial factor for breastfeeding.
Maria Grandahl, Jenny Stern, Eva-Lotta Funkquist   +2 more
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How Different Parental Leave Schemes Create Different Take-Up Patterns: Denmark in Nordic Comparison

Social Inclusion, 2021
The prevailing gender ideologies in the Nordic countries generally support the equal division of work and family life between men and women, including the equal sharing of parental leave.
Tine Rostgaard, Anders Ejrnæs
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Pregnancy and parental leave policies at Australian and New Zealand medical schools

Women's Health, 2022
Background: Research into how medical schools support students who are pregnant or with current parental responsibilities has been mostly limited to the US context.
Caroline McGrath, Rebecca A Szabo, Justin L Bilszta   +2 more
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers:The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits [PDF]

, 2013
Job protection and cash benefits are key elements of parental leave (PL) systems. We study how these two policy instruments affect return-to-work and medium-run labor market outcomes of mothers of newborn children.
Schlosser, Analia, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef; https://orcid.org/, Steinhauer, A., Steinhauer, Andreas, Lalive, R., Zweimüller, J., Zweimuller, Josef, Schlosser, A.   +8 more
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Does Mothers’ Parental Leave Uptake Stimulate Continued Employment and Family Formation? Evidence for Belgium

Social Sciences, 2019
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 ...
Jonas Wood, Karel Neels
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Unintended health consequences of Swedish parental leave policy (ParLeHealth): protocol for a quasi-experimental study

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Sweden has long been praised for a generous parental leave policy oriented towards facilitating a gender-equitable approach to work and parenting. Yet certain aspects of Swedish parental leave could also be responsible for the maintenance of
Anders Hjern, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Helena Honkaniemi, Sol Pia Juárez, Mikael Rostila, Amy F Heshmati, Enrico Debiasi, Andrea Dunlavy, Eleonora Mussino, Ann-Zofie Duvander   +9 more
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The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) dataset: Leave duration entitlements for 21 countries from 1970 to 2024 [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: Parenting leave policies shape how caregiving and paid work can be reconciled around the time of childbirth. They have important implications for fertility, employment, and gender equality.
Sonja Spitzer, Adèle Lemoine, Zhanxiong Song, Claudia Reiter, Angela Greulich, Agneta Herlitz, Alžběta Bártová, Elisa Brini, Zuzana Dančíková, Dovilė Galdauskaitė, Libertad González, Evi Hatzivarnava-Kazassi, Helena Honkaniemi, Sol Pía Juárez, Rannveig Kaldager Hart, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Anna Kurowska, Katre Pall, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, Tatjana Rakar, Tapio Räsänen, Konstantina Rentzou, Pedro Romero Balsas, Eva-Maria Schmidt, Laurène Thil, Dora Tuda, Lili Vargha, Daniele Vignoli, Sander Wagner, Katharina Wrohlich   +29 more
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When Does Expanded Eligibility Translate into Increased Take-Up? An Examination of Parental Leave Policy in Luxembourg

Social Inclusion, 2021
This article aims to explore the role of eligibility for parental leave as a determinant of access and as an enabler of leave take-up. To analyse the link between eligibility and take-up, we study a unique policy change in Luxembourg’s parental leave ...
Merve Uzunalioglu, Marie Valentova, Margaret O'Brien, Anne-Sophie Genevois   +3 more
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Parental Leave and Maternal Employment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by the government, as in Canada and several European ...
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Analyzing Strategic Parental Leave Decisions Using Two-Player Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Systems
Despite the well-documented benefits of paid parental leave, many employees hesitate to take it. This study employs a two-player stochastic game (SG) model to analyze how various factors affect parental leave decisions. The proposed SG model incorporates
Lixue Zhao, Hyun-Rok Lee
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