Promoting Parental Leave for Immigrant Fathers—What Role Does Policy Play?

Tervola, Jussi; Duvander, Ann‐Zofie; Mussino, Eleonora

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“…In comparison to the Norwegian scheme, the Swedish structure does not require previous employment, and fathers’ rights are not conditional on mothers’ rights. Moreover, a comparative study found that the immigrant–native gap in take-up was narrower in Sweden than in Finland (Tervola et al., 2017), which was primarily attributed to the fact that the Swedish scheme was more flexible in take-up options and the least conditional on mothers’ leave use.…”

Section: Immigrant Fathers and Parental Leave: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Immigrant parents’ social rights and utilisation of benefits have recently been addressed in a number of studies (e.g. Kil et al., 2018; Mussino and Duvander, 2016; Mussino et al., 2016; Sainsbury, 2019; Tervola et al., 2017). Policy constructions appear to have major implications for immigrants, determining the scope of inclusion or exclusion in access to benefits and services (Sainsbury, 2019).…”

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Immigrants and the ‘caring father’: Inequality in access to and utilisation of parental leave in Norway

2019

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How do parental leave rights and interacting societal structures influence immigrant fathers’ compliance with the ‘caring father’ model—typifying Nordic welfare states? Nordic parental leave schemes differ; this study investigated the impact of the Norwegian policy. Strong, stratifying effects related to access, particularly unfavourable for non-Western immigrant fathers, were demonstrated. These effects stemmed not only from the scheme being based on work performance criteria, but also from fathers’ rights being conditioned on mothers’ economic activity. Moreover, the observed gap between eligible immigrant and native-born fathers in the take-up of the father quota (the part of leave earmarked for fathers) was explored further. The gap was associated with weaker individual resources; however, ethnic labour market segregation played a significant role. The gap narrowed with the increased duration of stay of these fathers, suggesting that adaptation processes also are involved. The analysis is based on high-quality register data of all partnered men who became fathers in Norway in 2011, following them until their child was three years old in 2014.

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Section: Immigrant Fathers and Parental Leave: Previous Researchmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Immigrants and the ‘caring father’: Inequality in access to and utilisation of parental leave in Norway

2019

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“…Therefore, fertility is likely to affect the labor market integration of female migrants, and especially family reunion migrants. Men's labor market participation is not presumably hindered due to childbearing because fathers' use of parental leave is at low levels in Finland, especially when originating from typical origins of refugees (Tervola et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The analysis is conducted for both genders separately. However, participation in child care schemes is analyzed only among women, because immigrant fathers in Finland use child care benefits only marginally (Tervola et al 2017). The estimation equation of labor market integration is defined as follows:…”

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Different selection processes, different outcomes? Comparing labor market integration of asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members in Finland

Tervola

2020

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This study compares the longitudinal dynamics of labor market integration between asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members. The labor market integration of the three refugee groups are compared by using unique longitudinal register data of total refugee population in Finland during 2003-2015. The results show that among males, family reunion migrants integrate faster than asylum refugees and resettled refugees. Contrary to the previous results from Nordic countries, among females, resettled refugees integrate the fastest and family reunion migrants demonstrate the slowest integration. The overall small differences between admission categories are for the large part explained by discrepancies in observed factors such as fertility patterns among females and arrival during recession among males.

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“…In Sweden, each additional month of parental leave uptake by the father has been found to be associated with a 6.7% increase in the mother's wages (Johansson 2010). A woman of a given age in a partnership with a man of the same age or younger might be expected to realize more income gains than a woman in a partnership with an older man, based on the assumption that a younger man is more likely than an older man to take parental leave and contribute to the household responsibilities (Tervola, Duvander et al 2016).…”

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Does the age difference between partners influence the career achievements of women?

Oksuzyan¹,

Carollo²,

Drefahl³

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Women earn less than men at most career stages, and they also tend to partner with older men. This study investigates whether being the younger partner in a marriage reduces a woman's incentive to pursue an independent career. We hypothesize that the income gender gap might be partially explained by the age differences between spouses. Using both a within-twin (n = 4716) and pooled-twin (n = 13354) design to more readily account for differences in early household environments, we investigated for Denmark whether the age gap between a female twin and her partner has any influence on her income. The hypothesis could not be confirmed, as the age gap between partners did not appear to be associated with women's earnings. The finding that women's wages were generally unaffected by partnering with an older man could be a result of heterogeneous groups of women entering men-older partnerships. Future research should explore this question further by using the number of promotions to assess the career success of women, and should extend this work to countries with different social welfare systems and less egalitarian gender norms.

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Promoting Parental Leave for Immigrant Fathers—What Role Does Policy Play?

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Immigrants and the ‘caring father’: Inequality in access to and utilisation of parental leave in Norway

Immigrants and the ‘caring father’: Inequality in access to and utilisation of parental leave in Norway

Different selection processes, different outcomes? Comparing labor market integration of asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members in Finland

Does the age difference between partners influence the career achievements of women?

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