Parental leave is one of the most important components in structure family policy developed countries. In foreign practice, three types leaves are available: maternity leave, paternity and parental leave. The researchers note that development has a favorable economic, social demographic effect. For this reason, issue becoming more popular every year attracts attention wide range scientists. Nev...

Paid sick leave is an important employer-provided benefit that helps people obtain health care for themselves and their dependents. But paid sick leave is not universally available to US workers. Little is known about paid sick leave and its relationship to health behaviors. Contrary to public health goals to reduce the spread of illness, our findings indicate that in 2013 both full- and part-t...

1. EPIUnit Instituto de Saúde Pública. Universidade do Porto. Porto. Portugal. 2. Departamento de Epidemiologia Clínica, Medicina Preditiva e Saúde Pública. Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade do Porto. Porto. Portugal.  Autor correspondente: Mariana Amorim. [email protected] Recebido: 18 de Julho de 2014 Aceite: 15 de Dezembro de 2014 | Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2015 Mariana AMOR...

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’ use of parental leave. We find strong overall increase in parental leave usage among men. Two groups of men...

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using the German Mikrozensus 2010, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births in the first three years...

In a context where 46 countries now consider their fertility rate to be too low, attention is turning to the need for policy actions to increase fertility rates. This article discusses the reasons why action is required and why countries have been slow to take policy action. It then considers a wide range of possible policies and assesses them against a set of eleven social policy principles. T...

This paper examines whether firms use participation in work-family policies to screen for a worker’s level of job commitment, an unobservable characteristic that affects productivity. We identify two conditions that differentiate screening from human capital explanations, and test whether the wage penalty associated with usage varies with these conditions. Specifically, we propose that the wage...

Abstract This contribution asks whether the most recent innovation of Nordic family policies, so-called father quota, has been an object policy learning in countries that followed example leave policies earlier, such as Germany, Slovenia, and Japan. Our case studies show analyses learning, especially social field, need to take into account specific contexts actor constellations “export” “import...

A MAJORITY OF PROSPECTIVE AND CURRENT FEMALE GRADUATE STUDENTS BELIEVE THAT ACAdemia is incompatible with a fulfi lling family life (1–4). These concerns are exacerbated when institutional support regarding childbirth is unstated, incoherent across disciplines, or informal in nature. A well-defi ned university-wide childbirth accommodation policy aids in the recruitment and retention of the bes...