After reserving a second month of parental leave benefits, fathers’ uptake of parental leave in the first two years of the child’s life increased even more if they were also exposed to indirect reform effects, via their coworkers. This is found in a recent dissertation in economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), studying the introduction and expansion of parental leave quotas in Sweden, and how the parental leave of fathers may be affected by the uptake of their coworkers.
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