19th Annual Seminar 2022
19th International Network on Leave Policies & Research Annual Seminar
Why does leave matter and for whom? Consequences and inequalities of leave policies
June 21-22, 2022
Programme and Presentations 2022
Tuesday 21/06/2022
10:00-11:15 AM
A Patchwork System: National, State, and Local Leave Policies within the United States
● Welcome to the US: Dean Debra McPhee,
● Welcome from the US Team and logistics
● Greeting by US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
● Washington State Senator June Robinson
● Deputy Mayor of New York City Dr. Anne William-Isom, J.D.
● Overview of Leave Policies in the United States - Richard Petts, Gayle Kaufman, Cassandra Engemen & Shirley Gabel
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM -12:30 PM
Consequences of Family Policies
● Parental leave policies and labour markets outcomes for women and men in Lithuania - Ruta Braziene
● Parental leave policy, take-up consequences and changing normative beliefs: Evidence from a vignette experiment - Marie-Fleur Philipp, Pia S. Schober, Silke Büchau, C. Katharina Spiess
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30-2:30 PM
Leave and the COVID-19 Pandemic
● Leave as a strategy to cope with childcare responsibilities during Covid-19 pandemic among working parents - Anna Kurowska, Andrea Doucet, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Cassandra Engeman, Sylvia Fuller, Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Raffaelle Guetto, Gayle Kaufman, Eleonora Miaci, Richard Petts, Thordis Reimer
● Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the take-up of parental leave in Finland - Johanna Lammi-Taskula and Johanna Närvi
2:30-2:45 PM Break
2:45-4 PM
Comparative policy analysis
● Explaining the discrepancy between laws and practices of paid maternity leave in the Global South - Keonhi Son
● Access to parenting leaves for recent immigrants: a cross-national comparison - Ann-Zofie Duvander and Alison Koslowski
● Childcare by fathers in the context of active father-oriented policies - Tine Rostgaard and Gudny Eydal
Wednesday 22/06/2022
9:45-10:30 AM
Leave policies in Canada
● Canada update (with a focus on Quebec) - Sophie Mathieu and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
● Fathers and parental leave in Québec; Results from recent surveys with fathers and employers - Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
10:30-11:45 AM
Inequalities and Leave Policies
● Leave policy and inequalities: Reconfiguring leave as a social right? - Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotić and Alison Koslowski
● Equal rights of both parents to paid parental leave in Iceland: The 2021 policy and leave use after the revision - Ásdís Aðalbjörg Arnalds and Guðný Björk Eydal
● Do unpaid parental leave schemes hurt mother’s wages? Evidence from Spain - Irene Lapuerta
11:45 AM -12:45 PM Lunch
12:45- 2 PM
Use of and Evaluating Leave Provisions
● The impact of Birth leave reform on take-up rates in Spain - Gerardo Meil and Anna Escobedo
● Family leave after Brexit: Losses and gains for British working parents - Margaret O’Brien
● The effects and outcomes of Australia’s paid parental leave policy: evaluating a decade of evidence – Marian Baird
2:00-2:15 PM Farewell
2:30-3:30 PM Business Meeting