News & Events

11.09.2025

Review 2025 now available!

The 21th International Review of Leave Policies & Research has been published!

10.06.2025

Annual Seminar 2025 in Vilnius!

CHALLENGES OF LEAVE POLICIES AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

12-13 June 2025

Vilnius, Lithuania

12.11.2024

New publications from 'down under'

Marian Baird and colleagues have published a book and a paper on working carers and ageing at work.

07.11.2024

Swedish parental leave system is 50!

Former LP&R Network coordinator Ann-Zofie Duvander talks about the Swedish parental insurance in the video on this "crazy proposal"!

08.06.2023

‘Sorry, we’re closed’: pandemic childcare-policy responses in Europe

A fuzzy-set ideal-type analysis in 28 European countries

05.04.2023

Access to parenting leaves for immigrants

Ann-Zofie Duvander and Alison Koslowski map out the availability of leave to immigrants in a recent article

05.04.2023

Which fathers do not use the parental leave in Sweden?

In a recent working paper, we trace which fathers, to children born 1994 to 2017, are not using the parental leave.

09.02.2023

New! Research Handbook on Leave Policy

Comprehensive overview of conceptual and methodological developments and state-of-the-art findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes globally.

01.10.2020

Assessing and measuring the impacts of parental leave policies

New Special issue in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

03.09.2019

New Article: Inclusiveness of Parental-Leave Benefits in 21 European Countries

by Ivana Dobrotić and Sonja Blum

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