The study at hand pursues the following question: How are national parental leave arrangements related to fathers' participation in and time used for childcare? To answer this question, we merge data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) with national parental leave characteristics....

Für die Einführung des Betreuungsgeldes sprechen aus Sicht der Befürworter viele Argumente: mehr Wahlfreiheit, Anerkennung der Betreuungsleistung von Eltern, Ausgleich für die Nichtinanspruchnahme von Leistungen und eine Verbesserung des Kindeswohls. Die Autorinnen unterziehen die...

The aim of this study is the identification of socio-economic and workplacerelated determinants of the fathers' use of parental leave after the introduction of the Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act in Germany in 2007. This reform implied a strong paradigm shift in German family policy...

The main research question of this article is whether and how predictors of fathers' participation in childcare, defined as zero versus more than zero minutes of childcare, differ from predictors of participating fathers' amount of time on childcare, measured as minutes on the survey day. The...

Using unique monthly panel data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute...

Using unique monthly panel data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute...

Unter Verwendung einzigartiger monatlicher Paneldaten (IAB-HOPP), die den unmittelbaren Zeitraum nach dem ersten COVID-19 Lockdown in Deutschland von Juni bis August 2020 abdecken, untersuchen wir die gegensätzlichen Thesen zu Retraditionalisierung bzw. Modernisierung von Geschlechterrollen bei...