2017
DOI: 10.1108/ijssp-08-2015-0085
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The impact of an unconditional parental benefit on employment of mothers

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to solve the puzzle of the disproportionately lower employment rate of mothers of toddlers with relation to the employment rate of mothers of preschool and school-age children in Estonia. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on the Most Similar System Design and compares Estonia with Lithuania. The applied methods include inferential statistics and microsimulation techniques, employing the OECD Benefits and Wages Calculator, the OECD Family Support Calculator… Show more

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“…; in terms of research topics and themes, this cluster is very homogeneous and the main research agenda in this cluster is around care of vulnerable members of the family such as child and elderly. For example, unconditional parental benefits and employment of mothers (Kurowska, 2017), social policy to alleviate the stress among elderly (Chung et al. , 2008), cash for childcare (Höppner, 2017), gender and parenting-related leave (Dobrotić and Stropnik, 2020) and so on.…”
Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…; in terms of research topics and themes, this cluster is very homogeneous and the main research agenda in this cluster is around care of vulnerable members of the family such as child and elderly. For example, unconditional parental benefits and employment of mothers (Kurowska, 2017), social policy to alleviate the stress among elderly (Chung et al. , 2008), cash for childcare (Höppner, 2017), gender and parenting-related leave (Dobrotić and Stropnik, 2020) and so on.…”
Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Longer statutory parental leave has a negative impact on the re‐entry of mothers to the workplace by reducing the accumulation of human capital having the knock‐on effect of being perceived as less committed workers by employers (Ondrich et al. 1999 cited by Kurowska, 2017). Post‐communism equality is influenced by the market rather than ideology and the new forms of feminism require women to take advantage of the opportunities offered by capitalism while realizing and being aware of that structures are being developed which prevent them from succeeding (Dawisha, 2007).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%