Does Fathers’ Care Spill Over? Evaluating Reforms in the Swedish Parental Leave Program
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Anna-Lena Almqvist, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University. Data drawn from Welfare and Solidarity in Postindustrial Europe study managed from the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden; Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark and Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. Financial support for the study received from the Swe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Feminist Economics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1354-5701,1466-4372
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2018.1474240