Satisfaction and 'comparison sharing': What influences Swedish parents satisfaction with the sharing of parental leave?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 630-640

  Amilon, Anna ^a  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interdependence of preferences; Parental leave; Reference group

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349239356     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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