ABSTRACT

This study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements among working parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional childcare as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel data from two panel surveys of the National Educational Panel Study and its supplementary COVID-19 web survey, the study finds that mothers continue to play a key role in the care-arrangements during the first months of the pandemic. Moreover, the results illustrate the importance of working conditions, especially the possibility of remote work for the altered care-arrangements. Overall, the findings point towards systematic gender differences in the relationship between parental working conditions and the care-arrangements.

抽象的

这项研究调查了在职父母的短期安排后果，这些父母由于德国COVID-19大流行而受学校关闭和机构儿童保育的影响。通过将多项Logistic回归模型应用于来自美国国家教育小组研究及其补充COVID-19网络调查的两次小组调查的新颖数据，该研究发现母亲在住院的头几个月中继续在护理安排中发挥关键作用大流行病。此外，结果说明了工作条件的重要性，尤其是对于改变后的护理安排进行远程工作的可能性。总体而言，研究结果表明，父母工作条件与照护安排之间的关系存在系统的性别差异。