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    Separate Housework Spheres (2024)

    Jessen, Jonas ; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Weinhardt, Felix ; Berkes, Jan ;

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    Jessen, Jonas, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Felix Weinhardt & Jan Berkes (2024): Separate Housework Spheres. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17134), Bonn, 66 S.

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    "Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labor supply. We theoretically explain this pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate housework spheres in the GDR, West Germany, subsequent years post-reunification, and in international time-use data across 17 countries since the 1970s. We consider several implications, such as those for child penalties, where separate housework spheres provide a novel explanation for why it is the mothers whose labor market outcomes strongly deteriorate upon the arrival of children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Education, employment, and care work over adulthood: gendered life course trajectories in Canada and Germany (2024)

    Jongbloed, Janine ; Turgetto, Johanna; Andres, Lesley ; Lauterbach, Wolfgang ;

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    Jongbloed, Janine, Johanna Turgetto, Lesley Andres & Wolfgang Lauterbach (2024): Education, employment, and care work over adulthood: gendered life course trajectories in Canada and Germany. In: Journal of education and work, Jg. 37, H. 1-4, S. 92-114. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2024.2362630

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    "This article compares the education, employment, and care work biographical sequences of Canadian and German women and men from late adolescence into mid-adulthood. Through the lenses of comparative gendered life course theory and welfare regime theory, sequence and cluster analyses are used to determine the adult life course sequences of women and men in each country and to assess the extent to which they differ across contexts. The analyses reveal clear gender differences in work-family balance in labour market participation and unpaid care work. Groups also differ strongly on educational attainment, income, and family composition. Comparatively, gender differences are less marked in the Canadian context. These results suggest that differing gendered trajectories result in diverse outcomes depending on the national context, shaping different outcomes for women cross-nationally. Our findings highlight how historical and contemporary country-specific welfare state policies support or hinder women as active and productive members of society." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A longitudinal study on the consequences of the take-up of informal care on work hours, labour market exit and workplace absenteeism due to illness (2024)

    Josten, Edith J. C. ; Verbakel, Ellen ; de Boer, Alice H.;

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    Josten, Edith J. C., Ellen Verbakel & Alice H. de Boer (2024): A longitudinal study on the consequences of the take-up of informal care on work hours, labour market exit and workplace absenteeism due to illness. In: Ageing & Society, Jg. 44, S. 495-518. DOI:10.1017/S0144686X22000204

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    "Little is known about the effects of informal care-giving on employees' absenteeism due to illness. This paper therefore provides a longitudinal analysis of the consequences of taking on informal care-giving for men's and women's working hours and workplace absenteeism due to illness. Data were taken from the Dutch Labour Supply Panel (waves 2004–2018); 495 of the 6,452 male observations in this panel and 696 of the 5,961 female observations had taken on informal care-giving. It was tested whether respondents who became (intensive) informal carers were more likely than respondents who remained non-care-givers to reduce their work hours or stop working between waves t and t1, or to be absent from work due to illness in wave t1. (Multinomial) logistic regression analyses showed that taking on informal care reduced women's working hours when the care they provided was intensive, but not men's. The predicted probability of women reducing their work hours was 12 per cent if they had remained non-care-givers between waves t and t1, 15 per cent if they had started giving non-intensive care and 19 per cent if they had begun providing intensive help. In addition, starting to provide (non-intensive) informal care increased the risk of workplace absenteeism among both women and men. The study highlights the need for workplace policies that prevent female carers from reducing their work hours, and enable male and female carers to continue working in a healthy way." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    I initially thought I could do it while working my normal hours": informal caregiving and employment in (Upper)Austria (2024)

    Kadi, Selma; Leichsenring, Kai; Simmons, Cassandra; Staflinger, Heidemarie; Pot, Mirjam;

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    Kadi, Selma, Mirjam Pot, Cassandra Simmons, Kai Leichsenring & Heidemarie Staflinger (2024): I initially thought I could do it while working my normal hours": informal caregiving and employment in (Upper)Austria. (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research. Policy brief 2024,07), Wien, 9 S.

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    "Dieser Policy Brief informiert über ausgewählte Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts „Angehörigenpflege und Erwerbstätigkeit in (Ober-) Österreich: Ausgangssituation und Handlungsbedarfe“, das 2023-2024 im Auftrag der Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich durch das Europäische Zentrum für Wohlfahrtspolitik und Sozialforschung durchgeführt wurde (Kadi et al., 2024). Das Projekt beleuchtete die Situation erwerbstätiger pflegender Angehöriger in (Ober-)Österreich sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ. Methodisch wurden einerseits bestehende Erhebungen herangezogen und andererseits semi-strukturierte Interviews mit erwerbstätigen pflegenden Angehörigen (n = 19) aus Oberösterreich und mit Personen, die in beruflichem Kontakt (z. B. Hauskrankenpfleger:innen) mit pflegenden Angehörigen (n = 6) stehen, durchgeführt. Das Zitat im Titel stammt aus einem Interview mit einer Studienteilnehmerin, die auf einen wichtigen Aspekt der Angehörigenbetreuung aufmerksam macht – den schleichenden Prozess der Überforderung pflegender Angehöriger, der mitunter gerade dann sich einzugestehen schwerfällt, wenn die Betreuung mit Erwerbsarbeit verknüpft werden muss" (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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    Die Verteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit auf Männer und Frauen: Eine politische Diskussion (2024)

    Kladroba, Andreas ;

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    Kladroba, Andreas (2024): Die Verteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit auf Männer und Frauen: Eine politische Diskussion. (Streiflicht VWL / FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, KCV KompetenzCentrum für angewandte Volkswirtschaftslehre 14), Essen, 10 S.

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    "Frauen leisten im Schnitt neun Stunden mehr unbezahlte Arbeit pro Woche als Männer. Dies ist ein zentrales Ergebnis der aktuellen Zeitverwendungserhebung des Statistischen Bundesamtes. Das vorliegende Papier geht mit Hilfe statistischer Verfahren der Frage nach, inwiefern dies ein Zeichen für eine systematische Ungleichbehandlung der Frauen ist." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Consistent Egalitarianism or Heterogeneous Belief Patterns? Gender Ideologies in Contemporary East and West Germany (2024)

    Kleinschrot, Leonie ;

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    Kleinschrot, Leonie (2024): Consistent Egalitarianism or Heterogeneous Belief Patterns? Gender Ideologies in Contemporary East and West Germany. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 53, H. 4, S. 387-403. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2024-2027

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    "Die Untersuchung von Geschlechterideologien ist entscheidend für das Verständnis des berufs- und familienbezogenen Verhaltens von Frauen und Männern. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Geschlechterideologien von Befragten in Ost- und Westdeutschland und untersucht Unterschiede nach soziodemografischen Merkmalen. Die auf acht Geschlechterrollen-Items aus der FReDA Erhebung von 2021 angewendete latente Klassenanalyse zeigt eine weit verbreitete, konsistent egalitäre Geschlechterideologie in beiden Regionen Deutschlands, sowie eine weniger verbreitete traditionelle Ideologie im Westen. Darüber hinaus finden sich heterogene Geschlechterideologien, wobei das Überzeugungsmuster des egalitären Essentialismus in beiden Regionen Deutschlands und das der intensivierten Elternschaft nur im Westen vorkommt. Befragte mit einem niedrigen Bildungsniveau und Männer neigen stärker zu nicht-egalitären Geschlechterideologien. Die Ergebnisse untermauern die Literatur zu bestehenden Ost-West-Unterschieden in den Geschlechterideologien und zu deren zunehmender Diversifizierung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)

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    Quantifying Okun's Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies (2024)

    Koll, David ; Turon, Hélène ; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; Sachs, Dominik ;

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    Koll, David, Dominik Sachs, Fabian Stürmer-Heiber & Hélène Turon (2024): Quantifying Okun's Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 570), Bonn, 74 S.

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    "We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an incomecontingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the German context. Our analysis identifies two competing forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the tax and transfer system. (ii) Child development effects decrease the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. We show that, under most plausible assumptions on the long-term returns to childcare attendance for children growing up in households of different incomes, progressive childcare subsidies are the more efficient redistribution tool." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market (2024)

    Koopmans, Pim; Lent, Max van ; Been, Jim ;

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    Koopmans, Pim, Max van Lent & Jim Been (2024): Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16871), Bonn, 30 S.

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    "The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of having children beyond paid work in the labor market, such as home production. In this paper we estimate - deploying an event study with Dutch survey data - the child penalty in both home production and the labor market. In line with the literature we find no labor market effects for men. For women we find a strong reduction in work hours and lower wages. However, we find an increase in home production for women roughly similar to the decline in paid work. Consequently, time allocated to the labor market plus home production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women substitute paid work for leisure after the arrival of children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance: An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future (2024)

    Kruyen, Peter M. ; André, Stéfanie ; Heijden, Beatrice Van der;

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    Kruyen, Peter M., Stéfanie André & Beatrice Van der Heijden (Hrsg.) (2024): Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance. An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future. (New Horizons in Management series), Boca Raton: Elgar, 260 S. DOI:10.4337/9781803922348

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    "This thought-provoking book provides a detailed exploration of work–life balance, considering the perspectives of specific groups such as parents, academics, the self-employed, and migrants. Moreover, it sheds more light on the dynamics of self-care, childcare as well as informal care. Collaborative and interdisciplinary in its approach, featuring researchers ranging from quantitative to interpretative scholars, it highlights the importance of a sustainable work–life balance and the instruments needed to improve this. Focusing on both working arrangements and life events, this book assembles a diverse range of researchers to provide a holistic understanding of work–life balance, with chapters covering the organizational aspects of work-life balance and the effects of digitalization. The authors analyse the experiences of working parents and how work–life balance changes after retirement, and provide diagnostic instructions for employees and employers to re-organize the way they work across the life-span in order to maintain and enhance work–life balance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elgar) ((en))

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    Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labor-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe (2024)

    Laschinski, Miriam ;

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    Laschinski, Miriam (2024): Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labor-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 34, H. 4, S. 419-436. DOI:10.1177/09589287241251990

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    "Growing care dependencies among the elderly due to population ageing in Europe challenge the labor-market participation of informal caregivers. While familiarized care regimes incentivize family caregiving by providing many cash-for-care-benefits, resulting in reduced labor supply, defamiliarized care regimes allocate more public spending to care infrastructure, alleviating the care responsibilities placed on family members. At the same time, care provision on the micro-level is distributed unequally across gender, age, and socioeconomic status. The question then emerges: Does the labor-market participation of informal caregivers vary between and within countries depending on the social-expenditure policy of welfare states? To answer this research question, a multilevel design was used, employing SHARE data and macro-indicators from OECD and Eurostat databases. The results reveal higher probabilities of labour-market participation for informal caregivers in general when social expenditures on formal care infrastructure are higher. However, labor-market participation was observed as being unequally distributed among the heterogeneous group of persons with and without caregiving duties. Women and individuals of lower socioeconomic status did not benefit from social expenditures in the same way as their counterparts, leading to lower levels of labor-market participation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The interactive effect of maternity leaves and child care enrollment on maternal employment (2024)

    Lee, Sung-Tae; Jung, Sun-Moon ;

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    Lee, Sung-Tae & Sun-Moon Jung (2024): The interactive effect of maternity leaves and child care enrollment on maternal employment. In: Economic analysis and policy, Jg. 84, S. 344-353. DOI:10.1016/j.eap.2024.08.034

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    "This cross-country empirical research investigates the impact of maternity leaves and the child care enrollment rates on increasing maternal employment. By analyzing data from OECD countries with country-fixed effects, we find that the child care enrollment for 0–2 year olds increases the maternity employment rate. We confirm an inverted U-shaped relationship between the maternity leave duration and the maternity employment rate, as evidenced in prior studies. More interestingly, we find that an interaction term between child care enrollment and maternity leave duration is significantly positive, suggesting that two variables play a complement role in enhancing maternal employment rate. By examining the independent and complementary effects of extended maternity leave and child care enrollment rates, our study suggests that their combined use significantly enhances maternal employment rates, highlighting a complementary relationship that policymakers should consider to support working mothers effectively." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, ©2024 Economic Society of Australia (Queensland)) ((en))

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    Gendered Parenthood-Employment Gaps from Midlife: A Demographic Perspective Across Three Different Welfare Systems (2024)

    Lorenti, Angelo ; Nisén, Jessica ; Mencarini, Letizia ; Myrskylä, Mikko ;

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    Lorenti, Angelo, Jessica Nisén, Letizia Mencarini & Mikko Myrskylä (2024): Gendered Parenthood-Employment Gaps from Midlife: A Demographic Perspective Across Three Different Welfare Systems. In: European Journal of Population, Jg. 40. DOI:10.1007/s10680-024-09699-2

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    "Women’s labor force participation has increased in Western countries, but gender gaps remain, especially among parents. Using a novel comparative perspective, we assess women’s and men’s employment trajectories from midlife onward by parity and education. We provide insights into the gendered parenthood-employment gaps examining the long-term implications of parenthood beyond the core childbearing ages by decomposing years lived between ages 40–74, in years of employment, joblessness, and retirement. Using multistate incidence-based life tables, we compare different cultural and institutional contexts: Finland, Italy, and the USA. Our results document large cross-national variation, with education playing a key role. In Finland, the number of years of employment increases with parity for women and men, and the gender gap is small; in the USA, the relationship between parity and years of employment is relatively flat, although a gender gap emerges among those with two or more children; in Italy, the number of years of employment decreases sharply for women as parity increases, while it increases for men. Notably, education has a similar positive impact on years of employment across all groups in Finland. In contrast, in the USA and Italy, the gender gap is only half as large among highly educated mothers as it is among low educated mothers. The employment trajectories of childless women and men differ greatly across countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Alles beim Alten: Der Gender Care Gap in der Erwerbsbevölkerung (2024)

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    Lott, Yvonne (2024): Alles beim Alten: Der Gender Care Gap in der Erwerbsbevölkerung. (WSI Policy Brief / Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut 83), Düsseldorf, 17 S.

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    "Beim Gender Care Gap, also der Verteilung von unbezahlter Arbeit zwischen erwerbstätigen Frauen und Männern, ist alles beim Alten: Erwerbstätige Frauen stemmen nach wie vor den Löwenanteil an Kinderbetreuung, Pflege, Hausarbeit und Co. Insgesamt arbeiten sie durchschnittlich eine Stunde länger in der Woche als erwerbstätige Männer. Dies zeigt eine Sonderauswertung auf Basis der Zeitverwendungserhebung 2022 für die Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Cost of Fair Pay: How Child Care Work Wages Affect Formal Child Care Hours, Informal Child Care Hours, and Employment Hours (2024)

    Löffler, Verena;

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    Löffler, Verena (2024): The Cost of Fair Pay: How Child Care Work Wages Affect Formal Child Care Hours, Informal Child Care Hours, and Employment Hours. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 1205), Berlin, 81 S.

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    "The debate on the effects of child care policies on household and individual behavior is substantial but lacks a discussion of the unintended consequences of rising wages in the child care work sector. To address this gap in the debate, the relation between rising pay and formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours is analyzed empirically with a case study on child care in Germany between 2012 and 2019. Among other findings, the evidence demonstrates that the consumption of formal child care hours of middle- and high-income households in eastern Germany correlates negatively with child care work wages, indicating price elasticity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Grand-parenthood and retirement (2024)

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    Malisa, Amedeus (2024): Grand-parenthood and retirement. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 90. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102547

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    "This paper uses Swedish administrative data to examine the impact of grandparenthood on retirement behaviour. For causal identification, I exploit conditionally random variation in the births of first grandchildren using an event study design. The results show a significant increase in the retirement probability for grandmothers and grandfathers when the first grandchild is born, with no significant differences between them. The effects of the arrival of the grandchild on retirement increase over time after the grandchild is born. The incremental effects are larger among grandparents in the upper half of the earnings distribution than among their counterparts. The findings suggest that grandparenthood makes grandfathers and grandmothers less elastic to financial incentives and other regulations that also promote longer working lives in a country with generous family policies, such as Sweden." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Caring fathers in Europe: Toward universal caregiver families? (2024)

    Martínez-Pastor, Juan-Ignacio; Jurado-Guerrero, Teresa; Castellanos-Serrano, Cristina ; Fernández-Lozano, Irina ;

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    Martínez-Pastor, Juan-Ignacio, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, Irina Fernández-Lozano & Cristina Castellanos-Serrano (2024): Caring fathers in Europe: Toward universal caregiver families? In: Gender, work & organization, Jg. 31, H. 5, S. 1616-1638. DOI:10.1111/gwao.12948

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    "Increasingly, men are challenging the assumption that care is a feminine task and are involving themselves in childcare and the care of dependent adults. However, this does not necessarily have consequences for their work, as they very rarely make costly adaptations in their working lives. In this study, we propose a definition of a man in care (MIC) as a working father who, in order to meet care needs, has adapted his working life in a way that potentially entails a financial penalty. We analyze the prevalence of men in care among men living with children below the age of 15 across the EU-27 plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK using recent representative data (the European Labour Survey and its 2018 ad hoc module on work-life balance). We find that although the number of men engaging in costly work adaptations is still very low when compared to their female counterparts, the characteristics of these men can be clearly outlined: they have a non-manual occupation (managers excluded), they have temporary contracts or are self-employed, they are partnered to women who hold jobs of 40 or more hours a week and have a high educational attainment, and they work in family-friendly companies. Also, at the context level, the prevalence of MIC is clearly related to gender equality and values. However, we do not find evidence of any country having reached the universal caregiver model proposed by Nancy Fraser, including those with more advanced gender and welfare regimes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Über die (Nicht‑) Akzeptanz in Anwesenheit des Kindes zu arbeiten. Wie Eltern das Kind und ihre elterlichen Verantwortlichkeiten konstruieren (2024)

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    Mikats, Jana (2024): Über die (Nicht‑) Akzeptanz in Anwesenheit des Kindes zu arbeiten. Wie Eltern das Kind und ihre elterlichen Verantwortlichkeiten konstruieren. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 49, H. 3, S. 439-459. DOI:10.1007/s11614-024-00574-2

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    "The work-family literature suggests a contradictory relationship between working parenthood and (good) childhood, with disruptive or neglected children on the one side and absent or overburdened parents on the other. While the child occupies a complicated space in this relation, their position is rarely examined. Against this background, I explore the position of the child by turning to children’s copresence during parents’ performance of home-based paid work and ask how parents construct the child and their corresponding parental responsibilities. Following a practice-theoretical framework, I approach parents’ accounts as practices of representation in which the boundaries of what was perceived as (not) acceptable ways of doing family and work were sketched out. For this purpose, I analyzed 25 qualitative interviews with and about home-based working parents in the Austrian creative industries with positional maps. The parents had between one and three children in kindergarten or primary school. Parents’ constructions of the child were complex and ambiguous, as were the corresponding parental responsibilities. Meeting the child’s needs and not harming the child emerged as a common ground, yet the parents’ commitment to paid work was not questioned. Conversely, home-based work was seen as a way to meet both work and care demands. These findings suggest that home-based work may bridge ideas of good childhood and working parenthood. The paper contributes to an understanding of work and family that goes beyond simple dualism and offers new insights into parental home-based work, which remains relevant in the post-pandemic era." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    'It's One Rule for Them and One for Us': Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour (2024)

    Monroe, Julie ; Vincent, Steve ; Lopes, Ana ;

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    Monroe, Julie, Steve Vincent & Ana Lopes (2024): 'It's One Rule for Them and One for Us': Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 5, S. 1175-1196. DOI:10.1177/09500170241235864

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    "In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labor. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labor are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labor process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities are inscribed organisationally. Our analysis provides a more critical contextualisation of technological affordances to develop the literature on how technology is implicated in the reproduction of social inequality. Moreover, our analysis identifies multi-level causal processes, which combine to explain the presence and actualisation of worktime domestic labour or its absence, which is due, principally, to fear of sanction. For realist researchers interested in diversity-based challenges, absences are important because they can point towards specific discriminatory mechanisms. Our investigation thus revealed a surprising level of class-related in-work inequality within the gendered dynamics of domestic work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood (2024)

    Naujoks, Tabea ;

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    Naujoks, Tabea (2024): The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 51, S. 927-964. DOI:10.4054/demres.2024.51.30

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    "BACKGROUND There is a large body of research on the gendered division of domestic labor, but differences between women’s and men’s reported contributions to childcare and housework remain a puzzle. OBJECTIVE This study examines the reporting gap in the division of housework and childcare to understand how this gap changes across the transition to parenthood and how it is influenced by the couples’ constellations of educational and working hours. METHODS I use data from the German Family Panel (pairfam). The survey’s multi-actor design allows including both partners’ reports on the labor division. The sample consists of cohabiting different-sex couples who had their first child during the observation period, going from one year before the birth to two years after (n = 414). I employ logistic regressions to examine how the educational and working hours constellations are associated with reporting gaps. RESULTS This study reveals sizable reporting gaps in housework (45%) and childcare (38%) among couples during the transition to parenthood. Homogamous couples with tertiary education have the lowest predicted probability of reporting gaps. For the childcare reporting gap, I find that couples with a highly educated male partner and a medium or low-educated female partner exhibit the highest predicted probability of a reporting gap. The working hours constellation is unrelated to reporting gaps in either housework or childcare. CONTRIBUTION This study underscores that reporting gaps are systematically distributed, emphasizing the need for researchers to be aware of these patterns. Moreover, distinct results for housework and childcare emphasize the importance of analyzing them separately." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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    Eine Frage des Geschlechts? Arbeitsbedingungen aus der Perspektive von Männern und Frauen (2024)

    Peters, Eileen ;

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    Peters, Eileen (2024): Eine Frage des Geschlechts? Arbeitsbedingungen aus der Perspektive von Männern und Frauen. (FES diskurs), Bonn, 14 S.

    Abstract

    "Die Arbeitswelt befindet sich derzeit in einem großen Wandel. Digitalisierung, Fachkräftemangel und Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie treiben diesen stetig voran, um nur ein paar der gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen zu nennen. Das Alleinverdienermodell in Familien scheint zunehmend ausgedient zu haben, Pflege und Sorgearbeit müssen daher mit Erwerbsarbeit in Einklang gebracht werden. Doch noch immer arbeiten mehr Frauen in Teilzeit als Männer, sie übernehmen oftmals auch den größeren Anteil an Sorgearbeit und Pflege in den Familien. Wie wirken sich diese Veränderungen und Anforderungen auf die Wahrnehmung der Arbeitsbedingungen bei Frauen und Männern aus? Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass vor allem Frauen mit Kindern die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie als äußerst wichtiges Arbeitsmerkmal erachten. Gleichzeitig bewerten vor allem Frauen ohne Kinder ihre Arbeitsbelastungen als hoch. Der Beitrag ergänzt die aktuelle Debatte um eine moderne Arbeitswelt, die den geänderten Bedürfnissen der Arbeitnehmer:innen gerecht wird. Besonders in Zeiten des Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangels ist dies ein dringender Appell." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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