Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Labour market patterns among women and men following the uptake of their first parental leave benefit in Sweden
Originally published 2026-01-17 · Scientific Reports
Nature Publishing Group · DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-35960-1 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Follows distinct employment and study trajectories after first leave, showing why a parent’s return is a pathway rather than a single date.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
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What happens to a parent’s career after the first return-to-work day?
Follows distinct employment and study trajectories after first leave, showing why a parent’s return is a pathway rather than a single date.
Study context
43,959 women and 43,514 men in Sweden taking their first parental-leave benefit in 2010.
Age / stage: Adult parents followed over nine years.
Read with three questions
- Which sequence clusters described women’s and men’s labor-market participation?
- How did prior health and socioeconomic disadvantage relate to weaker attachment?
- What would a long-term reintegration measure reveal that a single retention count misses?
Keep the limits in view
Register clusters are descriptive and do not identify a causal effect of leave; employment and education patterns reflect the Swedish system and the cohort’s period.
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Marianna Virtanen; Katalin Gémes; Kristin Farrants; Jakob Bergström; Niklas Gustafsson; Laura Peutere; Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz; Kristina Alexanderson (2026). Labour market patterns among women and men following the uptake of their first parental leave benefit in Sweden Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35960-1
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