Childcare and the division of parental leave

Anna Norén ()
Additional contact information
Anna Norén: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2015:24, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: Despite several policies aimed at increasing fathers’ participation in the caring of children, Swedish mothers still use the bulk of the paid parental leave which may have several negative consequences for the family e.g. in terms of weaker labor market attachment for the mother. Division of parental leave is likely affected by how parents value the costs associated with parental leave. I investigate whether a reduction in the care burden, or a decreased non-monetary cost, of parental leave through the availability of childcare for older siblings affects how the leave is divided. The effect of access to childcare is evaluated by utilizing the regional heterogeneity of the implementation of a childcare reform in Sweden in 2002 that gave children of parents on parental leave with a younger sibling the right to stay in childcare. Results suggest that availability of childcare for an older sibling during parental leave does not impact the division of parental leave between mothers and fathers.

Keywords: Childcare; Parental leave; Gender equality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H31 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2015-11-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur and nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2015/wp2015-24-Ch ... f-parental-leave.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2015/wp2015-24-Childcare-and-the-division-of-parental-leave.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2015/wp2015-24-Childcare-and-the-division-of-parental-leave.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2015_024

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy IFAU, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ali Ghooloo ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).