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Belgium

Families and households

Drivers of fathers’ parental leave uptake in Belgium

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 Jonas Wood, Leen Marynissen and Dries Van Gasse
Belgium, Children, fathering, Work

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

Families and households

Cohabitation matters when studying breakups of couples with different migrant backgrounds

November 21, 2022 Layla Van den Berg and Dimitri Mortelmans
Belgium, Couples, Divorces, Europe, Marriage

Endogamy (partners of the same geographical origin) is said to lower the risk of marriage dissolution. However, once cohabitation is included in the analysis of Belgian (register) data, Layla Van … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Dual earners’ parental employment strategies in Belgium

June 10, 2021March 2, 2020 Jonas Wood and Leen Marynissen
Belgium, childbearing, Children, Europe, gender equality, Work

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

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