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Leave policy in the Nordic welfare states: a ‘recipe’ for high employment/high fertility?

Anne Lise Ellingsæter Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1-19 | Received 29 Aug 2006, Published online: 04 Feb 2009

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