PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: The impact of Nordic countries’ family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children

By Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, M. Verner. 2008

251 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. P. Haan
2. M. Mills
3. M. Verner
4. Ronald R. Rindfuss
5. J. Geyer
6. E. T. te Velde
7. O. Thévenon
8. V. Smith

In Political Science and International Relations

1. M. Mills
2. O. Thévenon
3. Nina Smith
4. P. McDonald
5. M. Verner
6. G. Esping-Andersen
7. A. Gauthier

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Mills
2. L. Christofides
3. Konstantinos Vrachimis
4. O. Thévenon
5. Nina Smith
6. P. McDonald
7. Ronald R. Rindfuss
8. Katharina Wrohlich

Citations in the corpus

• Gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ in Europe ☆ (2013, background): “Datta Gupta et al (2008) and Beblo and Wolf (2002) note that protracted maternity leave may affect wages adversely but Waldfogel (1998) reaches the opposite conclusion.”
• Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care (2010, unknown): “Other studies find negative or mixed effects (Gregg, Washbrook, Propper, and Burgess (2005), Stafford (1987), Waldfogel, Han, and BrooksGunn (2002)) of maternal care.”
• Family policies in OECD countries: a comparative analysis. (2011, background): “…countries show a high degree of occupational segregation, which can be seen partly as an unwanted consequence of segmented family policies (datta Gupta, Smith, and verner 2008). this pattern does not apply to all countries in northern europe: in Finland, for example, policies for parents with…”
• Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “Another type of policy are those aimed at improving work–family compatibility, which include maternity and paternity leave with or without salary-maintenance benefits (Rønsen, 2004; Datta Gupta et al ., 2008), the availability, acceptability, accessibility, quality and cost of child care (Rindfuss et”
• The effects of family policy on maternal labor supply: Combining evidence from a structural model and a quasi-experimental approach (2015, background): “Datta Gupta et al. (2008) show that the ‘Nordic’ model of parental leave leads to higher female employment (although lower wages).”
• Why are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence, 1997–2007 (2013, background): “One of the …rst economic models on the gender gap in promotion is presented in Lazear and Rosen (1990). Their model predicts a glass ceiling in promotion rates for women without assuming any taste-based discrimination among employers and assuming similar job ability distributions for men and women.”