Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192543 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 561
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We address the issue of the relationship between couples' parental leave practices and their workplace situation. This analysis is based on information from Norwegian administrative registers on around 200 000 couples, covering a period of almost 10 years. The most common practice among couples is that a father makes use of his exclusive right to father's leave and the mother uses all common leave. There are few obstacles in fathers' workplaces limiting father's leave, except in workplaces where there are high costs involved. Parental leave practices involving couples sharing part of their common leave are associated both with mothers' workplaces, with higher costs of absence, and fathers' workplaces, with lower costs of absence.
Subjects: 
gender
parenthood
parental leave
work
JEL: 
I38
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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