Caring for children with increased care needs can be demanding and the time required to provide such care hampers parents’ employment participation. Especially, mothers and lower educated parents are affected by the increased care burden and reduce or stop their employment participation. So far, the literature lacks studies investigating the employment impact in a comparative perspective. We fill this gap by comparing Belgium and Norway. We use comparable administrative datasets, identifying children with increased care needs as those receiving a cash benefit designed to financially compensate for the extra private care. The results confirm that gender and education inequalities exist in both countries. Moreover, we find that the negative care burden gap in employment depends on the country of residence, with significantly larger inequalities in Belgium. Our analyses suggest that increased support on multiple fronts is needed for these families.

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育儿需求增加的父母在就业和收入方面的性别和教育不平等：比利时与挪威

照料需要增加照料的儿童可能会很困难，而提供这种照料所需要的时间会阻碍父母的就业参与。尤其是，母亲和文化程度较低的父母会受到越来越多的照料负担的影响，并减少或停止就业。迄今为止，文献缺乏从比较角度研究就业影响的研究。我们通过比较比利时和挪威来填补这一空白。我们使用可比较的行政数据集，将需要照料需求增加的儿童识别为那些接受现金福利以经济补偿额外私人照料的儿童。结果证实，两国都存在性别和教育不平等现象。此外，我们发现就业方面的负护理负担差距取决于居住国家/地区，比利时的不平等现象严重得多。我们的分析表明，这些家庭需要在多个方面增加支持。