Drivers of fathers’ parental leave uptake in Belgium
Using longitudinal register data for Belgium, Jonas Wood, Leen Marynissen and Dries Van Gasse find that fathers who earn less than their female partners are more likely to use parental … Read more
Jonas Wood
Postdoctoral Researcher and Guest Professor at the Centre for Population, Family and Health, University of Antwerp, the Netherlands. personal page
Dual earners’ parental employment strategies in Belgium
Even in Belgium, despite its strong work-family reconciliation policies, childbearing pushes couples towards more traditional gender roles: when one member of a couple exits the labour market or takes parental … Read more
Local childcare availability and dual earner fertility in Belgium
In the context of population ageing, work-family reconciliation policies potentially play an important role in supporting both fertility and parental employment. However, the evaluation of such policies remains a challenge. … Read more
Parental leave uptake among migrant and native mothers in Belgium
Family policies such as parental leave schemes increasingly support the work-family balance. Although labour force participation has increased in recent decades among mothers in majority populations, maternal employment levels and … Read more