The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model (2009, unknown): “For more details on the old and the new parental leave benefit, see Spiess and Wrohlich (2008).”
Family policy and fertility: fathers’ and mothers’ use of parental leave and continued childbearing in Norway and Sweden (2010, background): “…introduced a Nordic-styled parental leave system in 2007, which includes two months that are reserved for the father as a measure to facilitate the combination of female labour Journal of European Social Policy 2010 20 (1) market activity, male caring and childbearing (Spiess and Wrohlich, 2008).”
The effects of family policy on maternal labor supply: Combining evidence from a structural model and a quasi-experimental approach (2015, background): “2 For an overview of the development of parental leave legislation in Germany, including developments since 2007, see Kluve and Tamm (2013), Schönberg and Ludsteck (2014) or Spiess and Wrohlich (2008).”
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): “While several authors (Spiess and Wrohlich, 2008; Erler, 2009) have welcomed these changes as a Nordic turn in German leave policy, there are still elements in place that support the MB ideal (Leitner, 2010).”