Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Gendering Effects of Sweden's Gender-neutral Care Leave Policy

The Gendering Effects of Sweden's Gender-neutral Care Leave Policy Abstract: The current gender-neutral care leave for care of sick children program in Sweden provides parents with a substantial number of publicly paid days per year. These are used when parents have to be absent from work to care for a sick child who cannot attend public childcare. Although gender neutral from the start, women still take the majority of days. We investigate whether the existing policy design plays a role in the division of leave. We study the income cap in the program using individual-level register data for the years 2005 and 2006. We show that there seems to be a clear effect of the income cap on the division of leave: if only one partner has an income below the cap, he/she uses the majority of days. However, analyses of a policy change that raised the cap reveal no effect on the division of leave. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Population Review Sociological Demography Press

The Gendering Effects of Sweden's Gender-neutral Care Leave Policy

Eriksson, Helen.
Population Review , Volume 50 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sociological-demography-press/the-gendering-effects-of-sweden-s-gender-neutral-care-leave-policy-9ztfTeYQGO
Publisher
Sociological Demography Press
Copyright
Copyright © Sociological Demography Press
ISSN
1549-0955
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Abstract: The current gender-neutral care leave for care of sick children program in Sweden provides parents with a substantial number of publicly paid days per year. These are used when parents have to be absent from work to care for a sick child who cannot attend public childcare. Although gender neutral from the start, women still take the majority of days. We investigate whether the existing policy design plays a role in the division of leave. We study the income cap in the program using individual-level register data for the years 2005 and 2006. We show that there seems to be a clear effect of the income cap on the division of leave: if only one partner has an income below the cap, he/she uses the majority of days. However, analyses of a policy change that raised the cap reveal no effect on the division of leave.

Journal

Population Review – Sociological Demography Press

Published: Jan 1, 2011

There are no references for this article.