Paid Parental Leave in Iceland: Increasing Gender Equality at Home and on the Labour Market

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Where this source is used

• Iceland's 2000 law established a phased design of three non-transferable paid months for each parent plus three months parents could divide, financed and administered through a public leave fund.

  • context · chapter 18, pp. 370–387, Abstract and Introduction

• Among eligible Icelandic fathers, leave uptake rose from roughly 0.2–0.3 percent before the reform to 82.4 percent in 2001 and 89.8 percent in 2004.

  • supports · chapter 18, pp. 370–387, A Policy Success? § Programmatic success, paragraphs 1–5 and Figure 18.1

• The selected Iceland studies do not isolate the leave design from every concurrent social change.

  • supports · chapter 18, pp. 370–387, A Policy Success? §§ Programmatic success and Counterclaims to success

• Payment cuts during Iceland's financial crisis were associated with reduced leave use by fathers, with the largest drop among fathers with high incomes.

  • supports · chapter 18, pp. 378–379, ‘An Enduring System’, subsection ‘Coping with a financial crisis’, especially the paragraph reporting the largest decrease among high-income fathers