Research Handbook on Leave Policy

Edited by Ivana Dobrotić, Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Sonja Blum, Acting Associate Professor for Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany and Alison Koslowski, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London, UK

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Leave Policy: Parenting and
Social Inequalities in a Global Perspective 1
Ivana Dobrotić, Sonja Blum and Alison Koslowski

PART I CONCEPTUAL AND ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES IN
LEAVE POLICY RESEARCH
2 A short history of leave policy research in higher income countries 14
Fred Deven and Peter Moss
3 Locating parenting leaves in gender and welfare state analysis 27
Rossella Ciccia
4 Grasping the character of parenting leave policies in space and time 40
Anna Kurowska
5 How to improve comparative parenting leave policy indicators? 54
Adeline Otto, Alžběta Bártová and Wim Van Lancker

PART II ANALYSING THE DRIVERS OF LEAVE POLICIES:
POLITICS AND IDEAS
6 Parenting leave policies and a global social policy agenda 68
Margaret O’Brien and Merve Uzunalioglu
7 The (new) politics of leave policymaking 83
Agnes Blome
8 Leave policies in populist and illiberal regimes: the cases of Hungary
and Poland 100
Dorota Szelewa and Dorottya Szikra
9 The role of ideas in parenting leaves: the case of gender equality and its
politicization in Finland 115
Mikael Nygård and Josefine Nyby

PART III ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF LEAVE POLICIES
10 Measuring the impacts of parenting leaves: grappling with conceptual
and methodological complexities 128
Andrea Doucet and Ann-Zofie Duvander
11 How parenting leaves impact parental employment, family work, and
gender norms: a literature review 142
Pia S. Schober and Silke Büchau
12 Do leave policies impact fertility? The case of immigrants from
low-fertility countries in Sweden 156
Eleonora Mussino
13 Fathers, fathering and parental leaves 174
Berit Brandth, Brita Bungum and Elin Kvande

PART IV LEAVE POLICIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
14 Gender equality and parenting leaves in Finland: a different pathway
towards the ‘Nordic’ leave policy model 188
Johanna Lammi-Taskula
15 Trajectories of modernization of parenting leave policies within
continental Europe: similarities and unexpected differences 202
Mara A. Yerkes, Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Wim Van Lancker
16 Trends towards de-gendering leave use in Spain and Portugal 219
Gerardo Meil, Karin Wall, Susana Atalaia and Anna Escobedo
17 Generous but unequal: the contradictions of parenting leaves in the
Baltic States 232
Marre Karu
18 Legacies of an Antipodean model? Parenting leave policy trajectories in
Australia and New Zealand 245
Gillian Whitehouse, Marian Baird and Suzy Morrissey
19 Disparities in access to paid leave in the US: differences between
parenting and other types of leaves 258
Richard J. Petts, Cassandra Engeman, Shirley Gatenio Gabel and Gayle Kaufman
20 Parenting leave policies in East Asia: developmentalist policy approach
and varieties of familialism 276
Xuan Li and Lisa Eklund
21 Leave policy across Latin America: a story of expansion, plateauing
and the need for unconventional instruments 293
Gabriela Marzonetto and Juliana Martínez Franzoni
22 Colonialism and paid maternity leave policies in sub-Saharan Africa 310
Keonhi Son

PART V GAPS AND THE FUTURE OF LEAVE POLICY RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT
23 Are parenting leaves available for LGBTQ parents? Examining policies
in Canada, Croatia, France, Iceland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom 325
Gayle Kaufman, Auður Magndís Auðardóttir, Deni Mazrekaj, Rachael N.
Pettigrew, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Tanja Vuckovic Juros and Mara A. Yerkes
24 The role of employers in reducing the implementation gap in leave policies 338
Lena Hipp, Charlotte Schlüter and Stefania Molina
25 Employer-provided leaves: paths to more time and money for working parents 353
Rosa Daiger von Gleichen
26 Broadening our conception of leave: leave to care for self or others over
the life course 368
Marian Baird, Myra Hamilton, Daniel Dinale, Lisa Gulesserian and
Alexandra Heron
27 Leave policy in the time of pandemic: new developments and lessons learned 384
Alison Koslowski, Sonja Blum and Ivana Dobrotić
28 Leave policy design and inequalities: reconfiguring leave as a social right? 398
Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotić and Alison Koslowski

Index 413