abstract: 'How do parental leave rights and interacting societal structures

  influence immigrant fathers'' compliance with the `caring father''

  model-typifying Nordic welfare states? Nordic parental leave schemes

  differ; this study investigated the impact of the Norwegian policy.

  Strong, stratifying effects related to access, particularly unfavourable

  for non-Western immigrant fathers, were demonstrated. These effects

  stemmed not only from the scheme being based on work performance

  criteria, but also from fathers'' rights being conditioned on mothers''

  economic activity. Moreover, the observed gap between eligible immigrant

  and native-born fathers in the take-up of the father quota (the part of

  leave earmarked for fathers) was explored further. The gap was

  associated with weaker individual resources; however, ethnic labour

  market segregation played a significant role. The gap narrowed with the

  increased duration of stay of these fathers, suggesting that adaptation

  processes also are involved. The analysis is based on high-quality

  register data of all partnered men who became fathers in Norway in 2011,

  following them until their child was three years old in 2014.'
affiliation: 'Ellingsaeter, AL (Corresponding Author), Univ Oslo, Dept Sociol \& Human
  Geog, Oslo, Norway.

  Ellingsaeter, Anne Lise, Univ Oslo, Dept Sociol \& Human Geog, Oslo, Norway.

  Kitterod, Ragni Hege; Ostbakken, Kjersti Misje, Inst Social Res, Oslo, Norway.'
article-number: '1468796819890109'
author: Ellingsaeter, Anne Lise and Kitterod, Ragni Hege and Ostbakken, Kjersti Misje
author-email: a.l.ellingsater@sosgeo.uio.no
author_list:
- family: Ellingsaeter
  given: Anne Lise
- family: Kitterod
  given: Ragni Hege
- family: Ostbakken
  given: Kjersti Misje
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/1468796819890109
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2019
eissn: 1741-2706
files: []
issn: 1468-7968
journal: ETHNICITIES
keywords: 'Ethnic labour market segregation; father quota; immigrants'' social

  rights; immigrants'' utilisation of benefits; parental leave scheme'
keywords-plus: WOMENS PAID WORK; SOCIAL RIGHTS; GENDER; ATTITUDES; MOTHERS
language: English
month: OCT
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '35'
orcid-numbers: Ellingsaeter, Anne Lise/0000-0003-0458-5731
pages: 959-982
papis_id: 569cd46b3a1dc3e823257b47e9764a23
ref: Ellingsaeter2020immigrantscaring
times-cited: '6'
title: 'Immigrants and the `caring father'': Inequality in access to and utilisation
  of parental leave in Norway'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000501052100001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '20'
web-of-science-categories: Ethnic Studies
year: '2020'