Abstract There are various types of family leave available to fathers across and within countries. The specific design features policies associated with how well used they by fathers, the key higher take up presented here. is an emerging literature on impacts in relation factors such as health well-being gender equality labour market. In particular, important for a good quality infant life. Fin...

The objective of the paper is to analyse and to simulate fishers dis-investment behaviour especially in the context of national decommissioning plans. We first examine the development of the French buyback policy and its links with the Common Fishery Policy objectives. The paper focus on the general conditions of the plans, especially on the basis of premiums offered to fishers to leave the ind...

BACKGROUND Gender differences in mortality vary widely between countries and over time, but few studies have examined predictors of these variations, apart from smoking. The aim of this study is to investigate the link between gender policy and the gender gap in cause-specific mortality, adjusted for economic factors and health behaviours. METHODS 22 OECD countries were followed 1973-2008 and...

This article discusses the diversity of family policy models in 28 OECD countries in terms of the balance between their different objectives and the mix of instruments adopted to implement the policies. Cross-country policy differences are investigated by applying a principal component analysis to comprehensive country-level data from the OECD Family database covering variables such as parental...

Sick leave due to mental disorders is a societal problem. It carries a high cost in terms of loss of labor productivity and absenteeism. Partial remission increases the risk of relapse after a return to work. There is sometimes a difference between the ability to return to work as judged by a general practitioner (GP) and the needs of the workplace. GPs are the main controllers of treatment and...

OBJECTIVE This study examined how maternal work-related factors, including the availability of paid maternal leave, affect childhood vaccination status. Relatively little is known about the association between the employment status of mothers and the vaccination status of their children. METHOD We examined data from the Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood (J-SHI...

Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish “Daddy-Month” Reform Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural experiment in Sweden. The data comprises all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in ...