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Titill: 
  • Fæðingarorlof og þátttaka feðra í umönnun barna sinna þremur árum eftir fæðingu fyrsta barns
Útgáfa: 
  • Október 2015
Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    In 2000 the Icelandic parliament adopted a new law that provided both parents an equal right to take paid parental leave. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the law has had the intended effect to increase both parents’ participation in caring for their children. The findings are based on three surveys on childcare and labour market participation, conducted in 2003, 2007 and 2013 among parents who had their first child in 1997, 2003 and 2009. The data provides a picture of how parents divided care before and after the law was enacted. As well as analysing the change in the division of childcare over the past years, linear regression analysis will be applied to assess the association between the length of fathers’ leave and their involvement in childcare four years after birth. The results indicate that the division of care between parents has changed in the intended direction, as the division is more equal after the law was put into practice. Furthermore, there is an association between the length of leave taken by fathers and their involvement in childcare four years after the birth of the child when controlling for background variables such as age, education and line of work. Even though one cannot come to the conclusion that fathers’ uptake of parental leave has a causal effect on their involvement in childcare, it is of great relevance for policy makers to identify an association between these two factors.

Birtist í: 
  • Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum XVI
ISBN: 
  • 978-9935-424-19-8
Samþykkt: 
  • 30.10.2015
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23147


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