On the sharing of temporary parental leave: the case of Sweden

Amilon, Anna

doi:10.1007/s11150-007-9015-0

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“…One of two existing studies on the division of care leave in Sweden was conducted by Amilon (2007). She measured the absolute income difference in couples and found that during a year women used a larger share of the care leave the lower their income was, compared to their partner's income.…”

Section: Relative Economic Resources and Previous Studies On Care Leamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Higher education is defined as at least two years of tertiary education (SUN>500). Amilon (2007) showed that the likelihood of care leave being shared depends on which sectors the woman and the man work in. The variable sector indicates whether the woman works in the public sector and the man in the private sector, the man in the public and the woman in the private sector, both in the public sector, or both in the private sector.…”

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“…Care leave is more likely to be shared the greater the number of children in the household (Amilon, 2007) and hence the number of children aged 0-6 is included. Eriksson (2011) showed that mothers and fathers with incomes above the income ceiling in the insurance scheme take less care leave than those with incomes below the ceiling.…”

Section: Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The likelihood of sharing care leave increases with the household's total number of care leave days (Amilon, 2007) and the man's number of care leave days increases with the woman's number of care leave days (Eriksson, 2011). The household's total number of care leave days is therefore included.…”

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Can you stay home today? Parents’ occupations, relative resources and division of care leave for sick children

Boye

2015

Acta Sociologica

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This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children (temporary parental leave) between parents in Sweden and is the first to examine the importance of differences in parents' work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born between 1999 and 2002 to analyse two aspects of parents' employment that may be of importance for the division of care leave: their relative resources, in this case wages, and different occupations. First, the results show that a father's share of care leave increases as the mother's relative wage decreases. This suggests that decisions about care leave are influenced by bargaining power gained through differences in resources. Second, the resources of couples where both partners work in the same occupation are more equal, and such couples also divide care leave more equally than couples with different occupations. However, the fact that sameoccupation couples tend to share care leave more equally does not seem to be explained by similarities in the partners' work characteristics, and may instead be due to unmeasured, stable characteristics. Greater income and career possibilities for the women are proposed as a possible explanation of the division of care leave for same-occupation couples.

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Section: Relative Economic Resources and Previous Studies On Care Leamentioning

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Section: Variablesmentioning

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Can you stay home today? Parents’ occupations, relative resources and division of care leave for sick children

Boye

2015

Acta Sociologica

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“…So effects on gender equality in household work of changes in all these dimensions can be investigated. Amilon (2007) analyzes care for sick children using cross section data for some variables, including education, which can give an indication of what to expect from a panel data analysis. However, we leave this for future research since digging deep into these questions would require at least a paper in itself.…”

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Care for Sick Children as a Proxy for Gender Equality in the Family

Eriksson

Nermo

2009

Soc Indic Res

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Swedish parents are entitled to government paid benefits to take care of sick children. In this paper we show that the gender distribution of paid care for sick children is a good proxy for the gender division of household work. Using two examples we show that registry data on care for sick children is a useful data source for studies on gender equality. Our first example shows that increased effort at work by one spouse leads to a lower effort in household work for this spouse, and a higher effort at home for the other spouse. Our second example provides some evidence for a procyclical pattern in gender equality.

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Local Variation in Gendered Family Policy Use: Evidence of Local Gender Contracts?

2021

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A central and unique part of Sweden’s family policy programme is care leave that working parents can use when children are sick and cannot attend (pre)school. The gender-equal policy entails that parents may divide the leave as they see fit. However, mothers and fathers do not share care leave equally and care leave patterns may vary geographically. The aim of this paper is to examine the interaction between gendered care leave and geographical context using the theory of gender contracts. We ask how geographical variation in fathers’ share of care leave varies by scale, and how both individual factors and geographical determinants, representing local gender contracts, are associated with fathers’ share of care leave. Distinctive from previous work, we use geocoded full-population register data and individualized neighbourhoods at multiple scales in order to be able to better measure contextual effects on care leave use. We find substantial spatial variation in fathers’ share of care leave, with clustering depending on scale level. Using the nearest 200 fathers with young children, a factor analysis summarizes local gender contracts into three factors labelled as elite, marginalization and private sector. Results show that especially living in local gender contract areas identified as “marginalized” positively affects fathers’ share of care leave. Living in the most segregated neighbourhoods has substantial effects on fathers’ share of care leave, but overall, neighbourhood effects are moderate. A gender contract perspective shows negotiations resulting from locally clustered gendered norms and relative resources between partners influence who stays home with sick children.

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On the sharing of temporary parental leave: the case of Sweden

Abstract: Temporary parental leave, Stackelberg model, Bargaining power, D13, J13,

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Can you stay home today? Parents’ occupations, relative resources and division of care leave for sick children

Can you stay home today? Parents’ occupations, relative resources and division of care leave for sick children

Care for Sick Children as a Proxy for Gender Equality in the Family

Local Variation in Gendered Family Policy Use: Evidence of Local Gender Contracts?

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