Is there such a thing as too long childcare leave?. Issue 1 (14th March 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Is there such a thing as too long childcare leave?. Issue 1 (14th March 2017)
- Main Title:
- Is there such a thing as too long childcare leave?
- Authors:
- Nieuwenhuis, Rense
Need, Ariana
Van der Kolk, Henk - Abstract:
- Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to revisit the question whether women's employment is negatively affected in countries with very long periods of childcare leave. Design/methodology/approach: The authors analyzed data on 192, 484 individual women, 305 country-years, and 18-countries, combined with country-level data on childcare, unemployment and service sector size. Findings: The authors found that in countries with short periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap is smaller than in countries with no childcare leave, while in countries with long periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap is bigger than with short periods of leave. Originality/value: The authors argued that to correctly answer the long-leave question – the relationship between duration of leave and employment of women should be explicitly hypothesized as being curvilinear; and childcare leave should be expected to affect only mothers, not women without children; testing the long-leave hypothesis requires the use of country-comparative data in which countries are observed repeatedly over time; and is best tested against person-level data.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of sociology and social policy. Volume 37:Issue 1/2(2017)
- Journal:
- International journal of sociology and social policy
- Issue:
- Volume 37:Issue 1/2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 37, Issue 1/2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0037-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 2
- Page End:
- 15
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-14
- Subjects:
- Employment -- Public policy -- Social policy -- Childcare leave -- Gender
Sociology -- Periodicals
Social policy -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1108/IJSSP-07-2015-0074 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0144-333X
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