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datestamp: 2020-08-04 09:35:22
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Arenz, Milena Maria
creators_id: S4105443
creators_email: milena.arenz@t-online.de
title: Who are the New Fathers? Determinants of Fathers’ Parental Leave Use
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The term “new fathers” describes fathers who are willing to give up their working hours temporarily to care for their children. The public debate on the phenomena of new
fathers is booming, and political reforms in Germany aim to promote gender equality by encouraging the participation of women in the labour market and, at the same time, supporting fathers’ participation in parental leave programs. This thesis focuses on determinants of
paternal leave use. Therefore, Becker's new home economics, the bargaining theory, and the doing gender approach are used to explain paternal leave. Data from the German Family Panel and logistic regression methods are used to investigate the influencing determinants.
In total, an analytical sample of 365 fathers is drawn. A great advantage of the study is the possibility to draw the influencing variables from the prewaves before childbirth, so that they are not already influenced by the birth of the child. The results show that egalitarian
gender roles and a lower importance of career heightens the probability for fathers to use parental leave. Furthermore, the importance of career is also influencing the length of parental leave use. All in all, the doing gender approach is well explaining parental leave use of
fathers.
date: 2020
pages: 71
thesis_type: pre_master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Gillespie, B.J.
tutors_name: Rutigliano, R.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: B.J.Gillespie@rug.nl
tutors_email: R.Rutigliano@rug.nl
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keywords_local: parental leave
keywords_local: fathers
keywords_local: determinants
keywords_local: Germany
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-29
citation:   Arenz, Milena Maria  (2020) Who are the New Fathers? Determinants of Fathers’ Parental Leave Use.  Pre-master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3291/1/MT_S4105443_Arenz_Milena_Maria.pdf