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What Helps and What Hinders? Exploring the Role of Workplace Characteristics for Parental Leave Use and Its Career Consequences

Samtleben, Claire; Bringmann, Julia; Bünning, Mareike; … - In: Social Sciences 8 (2019) 10, pp. --

The division of parental leave among couples today is still unequal—even in countries with progressive leave schemes. Given the gendered nature of the workplace, we examine how organizational characteristics relate to fathers’ uptake and length of parental leave as well as to the perceived...

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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economic modelling 20 (2003) 2, pp. 237-273

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - In: German economic review 4 (2003) 2, pp. 139-150

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

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Parenthood as a driver of increased gender inequality during COVID-19? Exploratory evidence from Germany

Hipp, Lena; Bünning, Mareike - In: European Societies 23 (2021) S1, pp. S658-S673

Drawing on three waves of survey data from a non-probability sample from Germany, this paper examines two opposing expectations about the pandemic’s impacts on gender equality: The optimistic view suggests that gender equality has increased, as essential workers in Germany have been...

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Paternal Part-Time Employment and Fathers' Long-Term Involvement in Child Care and Housework

Bünning, Mareike - In: Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (2020) 2, pp. 566-586

[Objective:] This study examines whether paternal part-time employment is related to greater involvement by fathers in … child care and housework, both while fathers are working part-time and after they return to full-time employment …,915 fathers. Fixed effects regression techniques are used to estimate the effect of (previous) part-time employment on fathers …

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