Parental care time in four European countries: comparing types and contexts
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- dc.contributor.author Gracia, Pabloca
- dc.contributor.author Ghysels, Jorisca
- dc.contributor.author Vercammen, Kimca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socialsca
- dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-11T01:51:09Z
- dc.date.available 2012-07-11T01:51:09Z
- dc.date.issued 2011-06-29T09:33:43Zca
- dc.date.modified 2012-07-10T07:27:34Zca
- dc.description.abstract The intensity of parental investments in child care time is expected to vary across families with different norms and time-constraints. Additionally, it should also differ across countries, since the abilities of parents to harmonize family and work vary by national context. In our opinion, however, this question remains inconclusive for two main reasons: 1) only some countries have been studied from a comparative approach; 2) previous studies have not paid enough attention to the analysis of how the conditional effects of education and employment affect parental investments.In this paper we used nationally representative time-use data from Denmark, Flanders, Spain and the United Kingdom (N=4,031) to explore how employment and education predict variations in child care time. IN Britain and Spain employment has a strong negative effect on fathers’ child care, but a weaker one in Flanders and particularly in Denmark. In contrast, maternal employment has a strong negative impact in all four countries. Education increases child care time significantly only among Spanish mothers and fathers, as well as British mothers. Nonetheless, we find that college-educated mothers under similar time-constraints increase substantially their expected child care time in Britain, Flanders and Spain; for fathers we find a more mixed picture. Routine child care activities are more sensitive to both maternal and paternal employment than interactive child care activities. Finally, we observe that working a public sector job generally increases a total time allocated to parental care, controlling for several demographic and socioeconomic variables.ca
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- dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2072/152113ca
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/12356
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.relation.ispartofseries DemoSoc working papers; 41ca
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- dc.subject.other Infants -- Criança -- Flandes (Bèlgica)ca
- dc.subject.other Infants -- Criança -- Espanyaca
- dc.subject.other Infants -- Criança -- Gran Bretanyaca
- dc.subject.other Infants -- Criança -- Dinamarcaca
- dc.subject.other Divisió del treball -- Flandes (Bèlgica)ca
- dc.subject.other Divisió del treball -- Espanyaca
- dc.subject.other Divisió del treball -- Gran Bretanyaca
- dc.subject.other Divisió del treball -- Dinamarcaca
- dc.subject.other Temps - Organitzacióca
- dc.title Parental care time in four European countries: comparing types and contextsca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca