Parental Leave Take-up and Women

1
Parental Leave Take-up and Womens Labour Market
Strategies After Parental Leave in Luxembourg

• Marie Valentova
• IMPALLA SCHOOL

2
The structure of the presentation

• Main research guestions
• Context of the analysis
• Methodology and the data
• Main Findings
• Conclusions

3
Main question

• What is the anticipated parental leave take-up
  rate among women currently economically active
  and younger than 40 years?
• What are their main socio-domographic and labour
  market characteristics?
• Do those charecteristics differ significatly from
  women who do not plan to take parental leave?
• What are the main socio-economic determinats of
  parental leave take up?

4
Context of the analysis

• Characteristics of Luxembourgish welfare state
  and in particular family policies in the EU15
  context
• Position of women in the Luxembourghish labour
  market in the EU15 context
• Parental leave as a female employment promoting
  welfare arrangement
• Administrative figures for Luxembourg

5
Methodology and data

• EU SILC-PSELL data set from 2002-2003
• Questions on anticipated bahaviour after child
  delivery
• Target population- women younger than 40 years,
  active in the labour market, planning to have
  children in the near future (in max. 5 years)
• Descriptive statistics of parental leave take up,
  the bi-variate analysis of association between
  take up and selected socio-economic individual
  characteristics, logistic regression examining
  the influence of the socio-economic factor
• Socio-demographic and labor market
  characteristics age, marital status, number of
  children, nationality, education, income, job
  seniority, type of work engagement, type of
  contract, occupation, salary

6
Findings 1

• 65 of the terget population anticipates taking
  parental leave, out of which 61 would prefere
  full-time modul of parental leave 41 would like
  to work after taking parental leave as much as
  they worked before taking it, 51 would like to
  reduce their working hours after parental leave
  and 8 plan to leave the labour market
• Difference between women who plan to take
  parental leave and who do not significant
  difference with respect to age, education,
  nationality, merital status, presence of
  children, type of contract

7
Findings 2

• Women with low education attanment have bigger
  probability to take parental than women with
  post-secundary education
• Women living in extended families with children
  have bigger probability to take parental leave
  that women livinig in nuclear families with
  children