19th Annual Seminar 2022 New York

Why does Leave matter and for whom? Consequences and Inequalities of Leave Policies

New York, USA

June 21–22, 2022

• Presentations

  • WA State Senator June Robinson: Leave Policies in Washington State (PPTX)

  • Richard Petts, Gayle Kaufman, Cassandra Engemen, Shirley Gabel: Overview of Leave Policies in the United States (PPTX)

  • Marie-Fleur Philipp, Pia S. Schober, Silke Büchau, C. Katharina Spiess: Parental leave policy, take-up consequences and changing normative beliefs: Evidence from a survey experiment (PPTX) 

  • Anna Kurowska, Andrea Doucet, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Cassandra Engeman, Sylvia Fuller,  Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Raffaelle Guetto, Gayle Kaufman, Eleonora Miaci, Richard Petts, Thordis Reimer: Leave as a strategy to cope with childcare responsibilities during Covid-19 pandemic among working parents (PPTX)

  • Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Johanna Närvi: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the take-up of parental leave in Finland (PPTX)

  • Keonhi Son: Explaining the discrepancy between laws and practices of paid maternity leave in the Global South (PDF)

  • Ann-Zofie Duvander, Alison Koslowski: Access to parenting leaves for recent immigrants: a cross-national comparison (PPTX)

  • Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotić, Alison Koslowski: Leave policy and inequalities: Reconfiguring leave as a social right? (PPTX) 

  • Ásdís Aðalbjörg Arnalds, Guðný Björk Eydal: Equal rights of both parents to paid parental leave in Iceland: The 2021 policy and leave use after the revision (PDF)

  • Irene Lapuerta: Do unpaid parental leave schemes hurt mother’s wages? Evidence from Spain (PPTX)

  • Gerardo Meil, Anna Escobedo: The impact of Birth leave reform on take-up rates in Spain (PPT)

  • Margaret O’Brien: Family leave after Brexit: Losses and gains for British working parents (PPTX)

  • Marian Baird: The effects and outcomes of Australia’s paid parental leave policy: evaluating a decade of evidence (PDF)