abstract: 'Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies

  trigger `tradeoffs'' and `paradoxes'' in terms of gender equality with

  adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly

  influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family and gender

  inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the

  relationship between the two most prominent work-family reconciliation

  policies (paid parental leave and public childcare coverage) and seven

  labor market outcomes (employment, full-time employment, earnings,

  full-time earnings, being a manager, being a lucrative manager and

  occupation percent female). We estimate multilevel models of individuals

  nested in a cross-section of 21 rich democracies near 2005, and two-way

  fixed effects models of individuals nested in a panel of 12 rich

  democracies over time. The vast majority of coefficients for work-family

  policies fail to reject the null hypothesis of no effects. The pattern

  of insignificance occurs regardless of which set of models or

  coefficients one compares. Moreover, there is as much evidence that

  significantly contradicts the `tradeoff hypothesis'' as is consistent

  with the hypothesis. Altogether, the analyses undermine claims that

  work-family reconciliation policies trigger trade-offs and paradoxes in

  terms of gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for

  women.'
affiliation: 'Brady, D (Corresponding Author), Univ Calif Riverside, Sch Publ Policy,
  Riverside, CA 92521 USA.

  Brady, D (Corresponding Author), WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Berlin, Germany.

  Brady, David, Univ Calif Riverside, Sch Publ Policy, Riverside, CA 92521 USA.

  Brady, David, WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Berlin, Germany.

  Blome, Agnes, Free Univ Berlin, Dept Polit \& Social Sci, Berlin, Germany.

  Kmec, Julie A., Washington State Univ, Dept Sociol, Pullman, WA 99164 USA.'
author: Brady, David and Blome, Agnes and Kmec, Julie A.
author-email: dbrady@ucr.edu
author_list:
- family: Brady
  given: David
- family: Blome
  given: Agnes
- family: Kmec
  given: Julie A.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/ser/mwy045
eissn: 1475-147X
files: []
issn: 1475-1461
journal: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords: work; family; labor markets; social policy; inequality; welfare state
keywords-plus: 'WELFARE-STATE PARADOX; UNIVERSAL CHILD-CARE; PARENTAL LEAVE; EMPLOYMENT

  OPPORTUNITIES; GENDER INEQUALITY; MATERNITY LEAVE; LOW FERTILITY;

  PENALTY; PERSPECTIVE; GENEROSITY'
language: English
month: JAN
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '65'
orcid-numbers: Brady, David/0000-0002-4059-3272
pages: 125-161
papis_id: 9895c20d7249f61d6709c1429c9930dd
ref: Brady2020workfamilyreconcilia
times-cited: '17'
title: Work-family reconciliation policies and women's and mothers' labor market outcomes
  in rich democracies
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000536507600007
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '27'
volume: '18'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Political Science; Sociology
year: '2020'