Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129386 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2015:18
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
A number of studies have shown that women's and men's wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in particular, but we know little about the possible wage impact of leave to care for sick children, which is a part of the Swedish parental leave system. On the one hand, care leave may influence human capital and real or perceived work capacity similarly to parental leave and send the employer the same signals about work commitment and responsibilities outside of work. On the other hand, important differences, including timing, frequency and predictability, between care leave and parental leave influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers and fathers who had their first child in 1994. The results show that care leave is associated with a lower wage, particularly among men, up to 13 years after the birth of the first child. One reason for the gender difference in the association between care leave and wage may be that men's care leave has a stronger signalling effect compared with women's care leave.
Subjects: 
care leave
parental leave
wages
gender equality
family
labour market
JEL: 
J13
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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