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The Temporary Leave Dilemma: Lone and Partnered Mothers in Sweden

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Lone mothers have to take care of a sick child with little or no help from the child's other parent and have to carry all costs connected to leave-taking. This paper empirically tests whether lone mothers take more temporary parental leave to care for sick children than partnered mothers and whether parental leave is associated with a signaling cost. The results from this study of Swedish mothers show that lone mothers use more temporary parental leave than partnered mothers. Further, within the group of lone mothers, those with higher socioeconomic status take less temporary parental leave than those with lower socioeconomic status, whereas no such differences are found within the group of partnered mothers. One possible interpretation is that signaling costs negatively influence the utilization of temporary parental leave for lone mothers.

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  • Anna Amilon, 2010. "The Temporary Leave Dilemma: Lone and Partnered Mothers in Sweden," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 33-52.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:16:y:2010:i:4:p:33-52
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.530604
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    1. Engström, Per & Hesselius, Patrik & Persson, Malin, 2007. "Excess use of Temporary Parental Benefit," Working Paper Series 2007:18, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
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