Edited by Ivana Dobrotić , Sonja Blum , and Alison Koslowski
Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare
This Research Handbook aims to deepen the understanding of complexities inherent to both leave policy research and leave policy development. It provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of conceptual and methodological trends and challenges in leave policy research, state-of-the-art findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes, as well as up-to-date knowledge on leave policy developments in different regions around the world. The Research Handbook brings together scholars – many of them members of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research – from various disciplines and different countries and regions, allowing for a diversity of perspectives and voices. Chapters engage with both past and future leave policy developments across the globe and, most importantly, encourage a critical debate on how leave policies should respond to the challenges posed by permanent (politics of) austerity, the rise of right-wing populism, new economies marked by increasingly precarious, underinsured and nonstandard employment, informal economies, migration flows, the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, growing financial strains on parents and widening (global) inequalities in general.