We describe trends in maternal employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are influenced by parental leave policies. Data are from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplements, merged with other months of the CPS, and cover the period 1987 to 1994. This time span is one during which parental leave legislation expanded a...

the purpose of this study was to investigate disability and medical leave due to psychiatric disorders in patients referred to comission for psychiatric and neurological consultation of 682 patients who had been referred to the comission during 1993-94. results showed that psychiatric disorders and mood disorders led to occupational disability and medical leave at a significantly higher rate th...

Synthetic aperture radar interferograms from properly selected multiple baselines can be combined in a manner that reduces the uncertainty in surface height estimation and avoids the downfall of traditional phase unwrapping techniques.

This study investigates whether rights to parental leave improve pediatric health. Aggregate data are used for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. More generous paid leave is found to reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially where a causal effect of leave is most plausible. In particular, there is a muc...

There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is primarily driven by the differences in female labor force participation behavior after childbirth, namely, the family leave duration and the subsequent atta...

National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic decision making and the normative context in which decision making is embedded. This study utilizes 36 time use surveys from 19 countries (spanning 1965-2003) combined with original national-level data in multilevel models to examine household task segregation. Analyses reveal that men do less and women do ...

The European Tale of Downfall (and Survival)This article is a review the book After Europe by Ivan Krastev. It focuses on author’s claims regarding crisis in which finds itself and questions some historical parallels likening current period to various disintegration moments past. also addresses Krastev’s observations concerning contemporary challenges, particularly migration rise populism. Whil...

In May 2018 the Malaysian governing coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) lost in national elections for first time since independence. But subsequent reform process came to a sudden halt February 2020. During transitions, unpredictability and risks political actors are higher, conditions extremely volatile. Multiparty coalitions such as PH have trouble sustaining cohesion that was instrumental their ...