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Sustainability@Leave at the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference 2024

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Our members Ann-Zofie Duvander, Marie Valentova and Merve Uzunalioğlu organised the session “The Role of Work Organizations in the Implementation of Social Policy. Special Focus on Work-family Reconciliation Policies” at the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference 2024 in Tampere with presenters from within and outside the Action:

  • Satu Helske, Jouni Helske, Simon N. Chapman, Sanni Kotimäki, Milla Salin, Santtu Tikka
    • Heterogeneous workplace peer effects in fathers’ parental leave uptake in Finland
  • Anna Hägglund, Satu Helske, Simon N. Chapman
    • ‘All for one and one for all?’ Do wage effects of fathers’ parental leave uptake vary by coworkers’ use of parental leave in Finland?
  • Ivana Dobrotić, Rosella Ciccia
    • “Leave policies beyond parenting: a life-course perspective.”
  •  Bastien Chabe-Ferret, Bianca Stumbitz, Helen Norman, Ericka Rascon Ramirez
    • Transition to parenthood in UK SMEs
  • Alessandro Rizzo, Monica Esposito
    • Work life balance and caregiving responsibilities in Italy: the contribution of national collective bargaining in the framework of European and national legislation
  • Blanka Plasová, Iveta Zelenková
    • Emerging issues in flexible work arrangements in post-pandemic and beyond in the Czech Republic
  • Amparo Nagore García, Giovanni Gallo
    • Retirement Decisions in the Age of COVID-19: Are Older Employees in Digital Occupations Working Longer?
  • Virginija Poškutė, Rūta Kazlauskaitė
    • Harmonizing work and life: Unravelling national and organizational patterns in Nordic and Baltic regions

Many other members participated as well:

  • Erika Grigorjew
    • “The Parental Night Shift: Gendered Inequalities in Night-time Care”
  • Keonhi Son
    • “Gender cleavage and political parties: partisan effect on family allowance and maternity leave in western countries, 1900-1970”
  • Mara Yerkes
    • “The Invisibility of Gender: Work-family policy framing, pandemic-containment measures, and gender inequality in work-care reconciliation”
  • Mare Ainsaar
    • “Have parents of large family higher life satisfaction? Impact of policies, resources, and values of large families in Europe”
  • Maximilian Reichert
    • “The critical juncture of childbirth: disentangling the impact of leave policy and education”
  • Petteri Eerola
    • “The Parental Night Shift: Gendered Inequalities in Night-time Care”

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