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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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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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Economic assimilation of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States

Peri, Giovanni; Rutledge, Zachariah - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26

cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … States without an employment rate disadvantage, and they surpassed natives within 10 years. We also find that Mexicans and …

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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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