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Employed or inactive? Cross-national differences in coding parental leave beneficiaries in European labour force survey data
Beschäftigt oder nicht aktiv? Internationale Unterschiede beim Codieren von Elterngeldbeziehern in europäischen Umfrage-Daten zum Arbeitspotenzial
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Abstract "In survey research the parental leave beneficiaries are usually coded as either employed or inactive. An exception is the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS), which includes parental leave among other forms of being employed but temporarily not working. This paper explores classification of parent... view more
"In survey research the parental leave beneficiaries are usually coded as either employed or inactive. An exception is the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS), which includes parental leave among other forms of being employed but temporarily not working. This paper explores classification of parental leave takers in EU-LFS. The authors show that classification rules differ cross-nationally: in some countries parental leave takers are considered inactive, in others - employed but temporarily not working. In particular in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Slovakia the EU-LFS data classify the beneficiaries as inactive. The authors estimate the number of mothers on parental leave in these countries and show that EU-LFS employment rates of women aged 18-40 are biased downwards 2-7 percentage points; for mothers of children aged 0-2 the bias reaches 12-45 percentage points. Their study shows the limited comparability of EU-LFS employment rates and warns about possible bias in cross-national studies." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
parental leave; classification; labor force participation; international comparison; error; maternity leave
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Labor Market Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 169-179
Journal
Survey Research Methods, 7 (2013) 3
ISSN
1864-3361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications