Parental Leave and Child Allowances : Attitudes, Preferences and Possible Impact

The paper addresses two family policy measures: parental leave & child benefit. It attempts to find out: 1) how people evaluate the existing measures, 2) which are the preferred alternative forms of these two measures (the length & mode of use of the parental leave, & dependence of child...

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Published inRevija za socijalnu politiku Vol. 14; no. 3-4; pp. 347 - 371
Main Authors STROPNIK, Nada, SAMBT, Joze
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Zagreb Pravni fakultet Sveucilista u Zagrebu 01.07.2007
Subjects
Children
Europe
Family Policy
Fertility
Maternity leave
Parents
Preferences
Social norms
Social Policy
Social problems and social policy. Social work
Social responsibility
Social support
Social welfare
Sociology
State-society relations
Welfare state
Europe
Family allowance
Survey
preferences
Parental leave
Family Policy
Crossnational Comparisons
Child
child allowance
fertility impact
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Summary:The paper addresses two family policy measures: parental leave & child benefit. It attempts to find out: 1) how people evaluate the existing measures, 2) which are the preferred alternative forms of these two measures (the length & mode of use of the parental leave, & dependence of child benefit rates on the family income, age of the child & the number of children), 3) how high the improvements of these two measures rate among the desired family policy measures, & 4) what possible impact these improvements may have on deciding to have (more) children. Empirical analysis is based on the International Population Policy Acceptance Survey database that covers 14 European countries. Multivariate analysis is used to explain the individual countries' results & some of the intercountry variation. It was found out that people tend to estimate a relatively high impact of the introduction of desirable family policy measures on their probable decision to have a(nother) child. The combination of improved parental leave arrangements & a substantial rise in child allowance proved to have a lower fertility impact than other combinations of family policy measures considered in the survey. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1330-2965
1845-6014
DOI:10.3935/rsp.v14i3.714