Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?

Valentová, Marie; Amjahad, Anissa; Genevois, Anne-Sophie

doi:10.1017/s0047279422000885

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“…Another data-driven limitation of the current study is that our data did not capture women's educational background, household income, partners' employment characteristics or parental leave endeavours (cf. Valentova et al, 2022) and the mothers' and child's health. Mothers' post-maternity leave health is essential because it is possible that both the length of maternity leave and the occurrence of sick leave later on might be driven by post-partum health problems (e.g., mental health disorders, see Chuard, 2023).…”

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Selection into maternity leave length and long-run maternal health in Germany

Bister,

Eibich,

Rutigliano

et al. 2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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Existing literature shows the importance of maternity leave as a strategy for women to balance work and family responsibilities. However, only a few studies focused on the long-run impact of maternity leave length on maternal health. Therefore, how exactly they are related remains unclear. We examine women’s selection into different lengths of maternity leave as a potential explanation for the inconclusive findings in the literature on the association between maternity leave and maternal health. This study aims to unravel the association between maternity leave length and mothers’ long-term health in Germany. Drawing on detailed data from the German Statutory Pension Fund (DRV), we estimated the association between maternity leave length and sick leave from 3 years following their child’s birth for 4,243 women living in Germany in 2015 by applying discrete-time logistic regression. Our results show a negative relationship between maternity-leave length and long-term maternal health, likely driven by negative health selection. Long maternity leaves of more than 24 months were associated with worse maternal health in the long run, while a positive association emerged for vulnerable women with pre-existing health problems.

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confidence: 99%

Selection into maternity leave length and long-run maternal health in Germany

Bister,

Eibich,

Rutigliano

et al. 2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…Existing literature (Brandth & Kvande, 2002;Duvander, 2014;Haas, Allard, & Hwang, 2002;Haas & Hwang, 2019a;Lapuerta, Baizán & González, 2011;Naldini & Solera, 2018;Valentova, Amjahad, Genevois, Leduc, & Maas, 2020) shows that the take-up of parental leave is explained by a set of individual characteristics (e.g. level of education and income, and preferences and attitudes concerning child-rearing), partners' characteristics (e.g.…”

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How Do Employers Respond to a Policy Reform of Parental Leave? A Focus on Fathers and Companies From Economy Sectors With Traditionally Lower Take-Up Rates

Amjahad

Valentová

Maas

2022

Journal of Family Issues

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The paper explores the perceptions and management practices regarding parental leave among a specific group of employers: those likely to have low parental leave take-up among staff. We conducted qualitative interviews with employers in 18 Luxembourg-based companies of sizes and economy sectors where low take-up is most prevalent. We explored how leave requests, employees’ absences and their return after parental leave are managed and how employers deal with the recent reform of parental leave policy. The results show that employers try to minimize the cost of fathers’ absence from work by negotiating over the timing of take-up and the form of leave to be taken. Parental leave is preferred over other work–life balance measures because it is perceived as a short-term and timely arrangement during a career. In this particular group of employers, parental leave is also viewed as more compatible with work and organization processes than other measures.

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Japanese fathers’ work-related factors associated with involvement in childcare

Ochi,

Kato,

Kachi

et al. 2024

Journal of Occupational Health

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Objectives Existing studies on fathers’ involvement in childcare have focused on its impact on children’s psychosocial development and the facilitation of family functions, like marital relationships. In this study, we investigated the factors that determine paternal childcare in Japan, particularly focusing on work-related hours and environment, separately, according to mothers’ employment status. Methods We used data from the Longitudinal Survey of Newborns in the 21st Century (2010 cohort) conducted in Japan. We restricted the sample to 27,783 participants with working fathers and analyzed how paternal work-related factors affect fathers’ childcare involvement by mothers’ employment status using an ordered logistic regression model. Results In the model adjusting for all covariates, the odds ratio of spending less time with children on weekdays was higher: for fathers who worked 50 and more hours per week compared to those who worked 40-49 hours per week (OR = 1.95, 95% confidence interval (CI):1.72-2.20 for 50-59 hours), for fathers whose commuting hour was longer than those commuting less than 0.5 hours per day (OR = 2.93, 95%CI:2.34-3.69 for 1.5 or more hours), for larger workplace employee sizes than for 5-99 employee sizes (OR = 1.56, 95%CI:1.38-1.77 for 500 or more employees). The associations between these paternal work-related variables and paternal hours spent with the children on weekdays were almost the same if the mothers were not working. Conclusions Regardless of whether the mother is working, fathers’ work environment factors, such as working hours, play a key role in their involvement in childcare.

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Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Selection into maternity leave length and long-run maternal health in Germany

Selection into maternity leave length and long-run maternal health in Germany

How Do Employers Respond to a Policy Reform of Parental Leave? A Focus on Fathers and Companies From Economy Sectors With Traditionally Lower Take-Up Rates

Japanese fathers’ work-related factors associated with involvement in childcare

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