22nd Annual Seminar 2025 Vilnius

22ND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON LEAVE POLICIES AND RESEARCH ANNUAL SEMINAR

CHALLENGES OF LEAVE POLICIES AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

JUNE 12-13, 2025 Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University

PROGRAM

PRESENTATIONS

• Alison Koslowski: Taking the longer & optimistic view: applying a sustainability lens to the social world
• Ann-Zofie Duvander: Systematic, inclusive and adaptive—how do we create a paid parental leave for changing and heterogeneous populations
• Mara Yerkes, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Alison Koslowski, and Andrea Doucet: What kinds of justice might PPL contribute to delivering? Expanding the scope to include environmental justice and the ensuing potential practical implications
• Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva, Irena Georgieva, Kalina Ilieva: Post-leave job-related security, orientations, practices and pathways towards parental leave in Bulgaria
• Sigtona Halrynjo: Parental leave in Portfolio Careers versus Traditional Careers: Exploring the Individual (and Gendered) Risks of Substitutability
• Guðný Björk Eydal, Ásdís A. Arnalds, and Ingólfur V. Gíslason: Does longer paid parental leave translate into more equal work and care: The case of Iceland
• Suzy Morrissey: Leave policies and pensions – how caring can cost you in later life
• Cristina Castellanos-Serrano: What factors influence fathers' use of paid parental leave without overlapping it with the mother? Characterization of solo care in Spain with microdata from the Social Security system
• Ann-Zofie Duvander and Åsa Lundqvist: Who is deserving of Swedish parental leave?
• Hideki Nakazato, Policies and Politics for Inclusive Parental Leave: The Case of Japan in International Comparison
• Mirna Varga and Ivana Dobrotić: Migrants and parenting leaves: how inclusive are leave policies for different migrants' situations?
• Cassandra Engeman: Care Leave Policies: Dimensions, measures, and developments across countries
• Sonja Blum and Ivana Dobrotić: Two decades of research on ‘family policy change’: A qualitative systematic review
• Gerardo Meil, Pedro Romero-Balsas, Gerlinde Mauerer, and Nadav Perez- Vaisvidovsky: Varieties in terminology use among academic comparative studies of leave policy
• Johanna Fischer: Comparing long-term care leave schemes in Europe
• Thordis Reimer and Anna Escobedo: The relevance of parental leave policy design for child well-being and health
• Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Johanna Närvi, Anneli Miettinen, and Miia Saarikallio-Torp: Fathers’ use of parental leave in Finland – does the quota matter?