This research explores how different parental leave reforms in West Germany impacted on the time mothers and fathers in couples spent on child care. I investigate indirect effects through mothers’ labor market return decisions more in detail than previous studies and also examine potential direct associations of reforms of the leave period and benefits with maternal and paternal care time. The ...

BACKGROUND This register study aims to increase the knowledge on how common it is that sickness benefit recipients are sick-listed for as long as their physician prescribes in their medical sickness certificate, i.e. sick-listing adherence, or wholly/partly bring return-to-work (RTW) forward, i.e. early RTW. METHODS The unit for analysis was an episode of 100% sickness benefit, commenced betw...

Many countries have reformed, or plan to reform, their pension system, often replacing defined benefits with some sort of savings account. In recent years proposals have been made to apply personal savings accounts also to other elements of social insurance, such as unemployment insurance, social assistance or parental leave compensation. This paper evaluates the consequences of replacing these...

Paid family leave (PFL) aims to help working parents balance their careers and responsibilities while also improving the well-being of infants. Using linked U.S. birth infant death data with a difference-in-differences framework, I find that 6-week PFL in California reduced post-neonatal mortality rate by 0.135- is, it saved approximately 339 lives. There were fewer deaths from health-related c...