The 2019 annual review ‘International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research’ by the International Network on Leave Policies and Research is now available. LISER researcher, Marie Valentova, represents Luxembourg in the international network which consists of over 60 members, all of whom are experts on leave issues and who come from 45 countries across the world.

This 2019 publication covers Maternity, Paternity and Parental leaves; leave to care for sick children and other employment-related measures to support working parents; and early childhood education and care policy. The review provides details of different types of leave; the relationship between leave policy and early childhood education and care policy; recent policy developments; information on take-up of leave in Luxembourg.

The announcement of the publication of the 2019 annual review came with two new countries joining the publication: Chile and Cyprus.   The 45 countries now include:  

The full country list is: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Uruguay

The report¹ including all the countries can be found at here
Luxembourg country report² can be found here
Cross-country comparisons and a new technical index can be found here or here 

More about the International Network on Leave Policies and Research

The 60 members of network bring not only expertise to the network, but great commitment and enthusiasm, enabling the group to grow and flourish without any regular source of external funding and to provide a unique forum for exchange, dialogue and collaboration on issues of care, employment and gender.