Parental Leave—Possibility or Trap? Does Family Leave Length Effect Swedish Women’s Labour Market Opportunities?

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Work-family policies and the effects of children on women's employment hours and wages (2011, background): “Indeed, studies show curvilinear relationships between leave length and women's employment outcomes and poverty (Evertsson & Duvander, 2010 ; Pettit & Hook, 2009 ).”
How Long Should Parental Leave Be? Attitudes to Gender Equality, Family, and Work as Determinants of Women’s and Men’s Parental Leave in Sweden (2014, methodology): “A similar definition of long leave is used by Evertsson and Duvander (2010), using another data source.”
Parental leave regulations and the persistence of the male breadwinner model: Using fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to assess gender equality in an enlarged Europe (2012, background): “However, given that a period of about 1 year is considered to have few negative consequences on individuals’ employment perspectives (Albrecht et al., 1999; Galtry and Callister, 2005; Evertsson and Duvander, 2011) and child well-being (Kamerman, 2006; Waldfogel, 2006; UNICEF, 2008), the crossover p”