at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … childcare. …

demographic dissimilarity among co-workers, namely differences in age, gender and race among employees who work together within …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …

We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. For 4-5 year olds, we find an immediate increase in infection …-related hospitalization, when these children first get access to childcare. We find no effect on younger children. When children are 10 …

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. While we find no effects of childcare access on hospitalization for 2 … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …

Equal access to childcare services is a key concern of childcare policy. This article analyses social inequalities in … neighbourhoods and investigate how different provider types contribute to such differences. To do so, we use data on all childcare … towards non-profit Provision - has undermined the universal character of the city's childcare system. …

Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental childcare … consistently shown that parents who are in paid employment do not reduce their parental childcare time on an hour-for-hour basis …

childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer child-care to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …