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Care for sick children as a proxy for gender equality in the family

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  • Eriksson, Rickard

    () (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University)

  • Nermo, Magnus

    () (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University)

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Swedish parents are entitled to government paid benefits to take care of sick children. In this paper we show that the gender distribution of paid care for sick children is a good proxy for the gender division of household work. Using two examples we show that registry data on care for sick children is a useful data source for studies on gender equality. Our first example shows that increased effort at work by one spouse leads to a lower effort in household work for this spouse, and a higher effort at home for the other spouse. Our second example provides some evidence for a procyclical pattern in gender equality.

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Paper provided by Swedish Institute for Social Research in its series Working Paper Series with number 1/2008.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: 18 Feb 2008
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:sofiwp:2008_001

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Keywords: gender equality; time use; household work; unemployment; business cycles;

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  2. Lancker, W. van & Ghysels, J., 2011. "GINI DP 10: Who Reaps the Benefits? The social distribution of public childcare in Sweden and Flanders," GINI Discussion Papers 10, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.
  3. Eriksson, Rickard & Nermo, Magnus, 2008. "Care for sick children as a proxy for gender equality in the family," Working Paper Series 1/2008, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
  4. Wim Van Lancker & Joris Ghysels, 2011. "Who reaps the benefits? The social distribution of public childcare in Sweden and Flanders," Working Papers 1106, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.

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