Pedro Romero-Balsas
Biographic Data
| ID | 250681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Romero-Balsas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero-Balsas |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO-BALSAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2497-7927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Use of Paternity Leave by Migrants in Spain
Studies focusing on how the migrant population understands and utilises family policies are scarce in Southern European countries. We focus on the use of paternity leave by American and European migrant fathers in Spain. This work is based on an online survey of parents (QUIDAN, 2021), which is nationally representative with a sample of 3100 respondents. We have conducted descriptive statistics and explanatory multivariate models. The main result…
Permisos parentales no remunerados y escuelas infantiles ¿son recursos de conciliación sustitutivos o complementarios
Las escuelas infantiles, las excedencias y las reducciones de jornada para el cuidado de niños son recursos fundamentales para la conciliación de las familias españolas. Este trabajo persigue conocer cómo condiciona el uso de los permisos parentales no remunerados la utilización de las escuelas infantiles durante los primeros tres años de vida de los hijos/as. Para ello, se utiliza la Encuesta sobre el uso de permisos parentales en España, 2012 y…
Consecuencias del permiso de paternidad en el reparto de tareas y cuidados en la pareja
Uno de los grandes objetivos de las políticas parentales dirigidasexclusivamente a varones es la igualdad de géneros. El objetivo de esteestudio es de comprobar si la utilización del permiso de paternidadfomenta la implicación y el reparto de actividades dentro de la esferareproductiva. Para ello se ha utilizado la encuesta «El uso social de lospermisos parentales 2012». Se han creado modelos analíticosmultivariantes, utilizando las técnicas de r…
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain
Paternity leave has been introduced in many countries as a way to foster father's co-responsibility in family obligations. This study aims \to analyse, for the Spanish case, if (1) the positive effects of the paternity leave are not only limited to the short term, but are maintained at medium and long term; (2) if a similar effect applies in the case of unemployment periods. Based on a subsample of 3388 cases derived from the Spanish Fertility Su…
Do Europeans want children? The significance of job-related spatial mobility
Job-related spatial mobility (JRSM) includes different types of movement situations (long-distance commuting, overnighting, recent relocation, long-distance relationship and multi-mobile) regarding employment and family life and it has implications both for labour market relations and for embarking on parenthood. This article aims to determine how spatial mobility at work can influence childless workers decision on having children in the context …
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain
This study analyses the effect of working conditions, educational background, job mobility, grandparental availability and co-worker attitudes on the duration of unpaid parental leave in Spain. The length of parental leave is a key factor in both the work–family life balance and the furtherance of gender equality in childcare. The data for the analysis were drawn from a 2012 survey on the use of parental leave involving a nationwide sample of 400…
Policemen on Leave Alone in Spain. A Rift in Hegemonic Masculinity
Caring fatherhood in very traditional and masculinized environments has been under-researched. This study analyzed the experience of Spanish policemen who used parental leave to care for their babies alone while their partners returned to paid work. The aim was to ascertain whether use of parental leaves under those circumstances favors the development of caring masculinity. The qualitative methodology deployed consisted in semi-structured interv…
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain
This article analyses how unemployed fathers with employed partners broach childcare and how they conceive of their own identities. It aims primarily to determine whether these fathers actually play the part of primary caregivers. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 26 unemployed fathers who spent at least three months caring for their children. The findings show that these fathers engaged intensively in a wide variety of caring tas…
Comparación del impacto de los valores de género en el trabajo no remunerado en dos tipos de Estado del Bienestar: Reino Unido y España
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar la brecha entre los valores de género y la práctica doméstica en el Reino Unido y España. Los datos se obtuvieron de una muestra de encuestados británicos y españoles, hombres y mujeres, en el módulo “Familia y cambio de roles de género” del Programa Internacional de Encuestas Sociales (ISSP 2002; 2012) y se utilizaron para crear modelos multivariantes utilizando técnicas de regresión de mínimos cuadra…
The effectiveness of corporate gender equality plans in improving leave provisions for fathers in Spain
Official Spanish policy seeks greater gender equality by, among other things, encouraging men’s use of their legal rights to parental leave and requiring employers to implement equality plans. This article contains a first-ever analysis of the extent to which company equality plans are used to improve upon the legal provisions governing parental leave and whether those improvements actually encourage greater leave use by men, help to degender lea…
Grandparents' Role in Spanish Families' Work/Life Balance Strategies
In recent years, grandparental childcare has been instrumental to Spanish parents' ability to engage in paid work. At the same time, the use of formal childcare services, paid domestic assistance and parental leave-taking have also intensified. The objectives of this study are: (1) to estimate the scope of the support received from grandparents in caring for children; and (2) to assess the impact of the diversification of childcare resources on h…
Job Mobility and Subjective Well-being in Europe. Do Highly Mobile Workers Feel Worse
Una de las consecuencias de la globalización es el aumento de la movilidad por motivos de trabajo. Esta movilidad tiene efectos positivos y negativos sobre el bienestar de las personas. Basándonos en las dos oleadas (2007 y 2011) de la encuesta Job Mobilities and Family Life, se analizará el impacto que tienen las transiciones en la movilidad sobre el bienestar subjetivo, controlando la influencia de otras transiciones vitales relevantes (pareja,…
Decision‐Making Factors within Paternity and Parental Leaves: Why Spanish Fathers Take Time Off from Work
This article aims to understand how Spanish fathers construct and justify their decisions to use both paternity and parental leaves. Specifically, we analyse the fathers' discourse about paid work conditions, the couple's decision‐making process, formal and informal care resources, and care and gender equality. We divided responders according to the type of leave that they took and the length of time away from work; as a result, participants in t…
Decision‐Making Factors within Paternity and Parental Leaves: Why Spanish Fathers Take Time Off from Work
This article aims to understand how Spanish fathers construct and justify their decisions to use both paternity and parental leaves. Specifically, we analyse the fathers' discourse about paid work conditions, the couple's decision‐making process, formal and informal care resources, and care and gender equality. We divided responders according to the type of leave that they took and the length of time away from work; as a result, participants in t…
Policemen on Leave Alone in Spain. A Rift in Hegemonic Masculinity
Caring fatherhood in very traditional and masculinized environments has been under-researched. This study analyzed the experience of Spanish policemen who used parental leave to care for their babies alone while their partners returned to paid work. The aim was to ascertain whether use of parental leaves under those circumstances favors the development of caring masculinity. The qualitative methodology deployed consisted in semi-structured interv…
The effectiveness of corporate gender equality plans in improving leave provisions for fathers in Spain
Official Spanish policy seeks greater gender equality by, among other things, encouraging men’s use of their legal rights to parental leave and requiring employers to implement equality plans. This article contains a first-ever analysis of the extent to which company equality plans are used to improve upon the legal provisions governing parental leave and whether those improvements actually encourage greater leave use by men, help to degender lea…
Consecuencias del permiso de paternidad en el reparto de tareas y cuidados en la pareja
Uno de los grandes objetivos de las políticas parentales dirigidasexclusivamente a varones es la igualdad de géneros. El objetivo de esteestudio es de comprobar si la utilización del permiso de paternidadfomenta la implicación y el reparto de actividades dentro de la esferareproductiva. Para ello se ha utilizado la encuesta «El uso social de lospermisos parentales 2012». Se han creado modelos analíticosmultivariantes, utilizando las técnicas de r…
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain
Paternity leave has been introduced in many countries as a way to foster father's co-responsibility in family obligations. This study aims \to analyse, for the Spanish case, if (1) the positive effects of the paternity leave are not only limited to the short term, but are maintained at medium and long term; (2) if a similar effect applies in the case of unemployment periods. Based on a subsample of 3388 cases derived from the Spanish Fertility Su…
Grandparents' Role in Spanish Families' Work/Life Balance Strategies
In recent years, grandparental childcare has been instrumental to Spanish parents' ability to engage in paid work. At the same time, the use of formal childcare services, paid domestic assistance and parental leave-taking have also intensified. The objectives of this study are: (1) to estimate the scope of the support received from grandparents in caring for children; and (2) to assess the impact of the diversification of childcare resources on h…
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain
This study analyses the effect of working conditions, educational background, job mobility, grandparental availability and co-worker attitudes on the duration of unpaid parental leave in Spain. The length of parental leave is a key factor in both the work–family life balance and the furtherance of gender equality in childcare. The data for the analysis were drawn from a 2012 survey on the use of parental leave involving a nationwide sample of 400…
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain
This article analyses how unemployed fathers with employed partners broach childcare and how they conceive of their own identities. It aims primarily to determine whether these fathers actually play the part of primary caregivers. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 26 unemployed fathers who spent at least three months caring for their children. The findings show that these fathers engaged intensively in a wide variety of caring tas…
Permisos parentales no remunerados y escuelas infantiles ¿son recursos de conciliación sustitutivos o complementarios
Las escuelas infantiles, las excedencias y las reducciones de jornada para el cuidado de niños son recursos fundamentales para la conciliación de las familias españolas. Este trabajo persigue conocer cómo condiciona el uso de los permisos parentales no remunerados la utilización de las escuelas infantiles durante los primeros tres años de vida de los hijos/as. Para ello, se utiliza la Encuesta sobre el uso de permisos parentales en España, 2012 y…
Comparación del impacto de los valores de género en el trabajo no remunerado en dos tipos de Estado del Bienestar: Reino Unido y España
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar la brecha entre los valores de género y la práctica doméstica en el Reino Unido y España. Los datos se obtuvieron de una muestra de encuestados británicos y españoles, hombres y mujeres, en el módulo “Familia y cambio de roles de género” del Programa Internacional de Encuestas Sociales (ISSP 2002; 2012) y se utilizaron para crear modelos multivariantes utilizando técnicas de regresión de mínimos cuadra…
Decision‐Making Factors within Paternity and Parental Leaves: Why Spanish Fathers Take Time Off from Work
This article aims to understand how Spanish fathers construct and justify their decisions to use both paternity and parental leaves. Specifically, we analyse the fathers' discourse about paid work conditions, the couple's decision‐making process, formal and informal care resources, and care and gender equality. We divided responders according to the type of leave that they took and the length of time away from work; as a result, participants in t…
Job Mobility and Subjective Well-being in Europe. Do Highly Mobile Workers Feel Worse
Una de las consecuencias de la globalización es el aumento de la movilidad por motivos de trabajo. Esta movilidad tiene efectos positivos y negativos sobre el bienestar de las personas. Basándonos en las dos oleadas (2007 y 2011) de la encuesta Job Mobilities and Family Life, se analizará el impacto que tienen las transiciones en la movilidad sobre el bienestar subjetivo, controlando la influencia de otras transiciones vitales relevantes (pareja,…
Grandparents' Role in Spanish Families' Work/Life Balance Strategies
In recent years, grandparental childcare has been instrumental to Spanish parents' ability to engage in paid work. At the same time, the use of formal childcare services, paid domestic assistance and parental leave-taking have also intensified. The objectives of this study are: (1) to estimate the scope of the support received from grandparents in caring for children; and (2) to assess the impact of the diversification of childcare resources on h…
The effectiveness of corporate gender equality plans in improving leave provisions for fathers in Spain
Official Spanish policy seeks greater gender equality by, among other things, encouraging men’s use of their legal rights to parental leave and requiring employers to implement equality plans. This article contains a first-ever analysis of the extent to which company equality plans are used to improve upon the legal provisions governing parental leave and whether those improvements actually encourage greater leave use by men, help to degender lea…
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain
This article analyses how unemployed fathers with employed partners broach childcare and how they conceive of their own identities. It aims primarily to determine whether these fathers actually play the part of primary caregivers. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 26 unemployed fathers who spent at least three months caring for their children. The findings show that these fathers engaged intensively in a wide variety of caring tas…
Comparación del impacto de los valores de género en el trabajo no remunerado en dos tipos de Estado del Bienestar: Reino Unido y España
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar la brecha entre los valores de género y la práctica doméstica en el Reino Unido y España. Los datos se obtuvieron de una muestra de encuestados británicos y españoles, hombres y mujeres, en el módulo “Familia y cambio de roles de género” del Programa Internacional de Encuestas Sociales (ISSP 2002; 2012) y se utilizaron para crear modelos multivariantes utilizando técnicas de regresión de mínimos cuadra…
Policemen on Leave Alone in Spain. A Rift in Hegemonic Masculinity
Caring fatherhood in very traditional and masculinized environments has been under-researched. This study analyzed the experience of Spanish policemen who used parental leave to care for their babies alone while their partners returned to paid work. The aim was to ascertain whether use of parental leaves under those circumstances favors the development of caring masculinity. The qualitative methodology deployed consisted in semi-structured interv…
Do Europeans want children? The significance of job-related spatial mobility
Job-related spatial mobility (JRSM) includes different types of movement situations (long-distance commuting, overnighting, recent relocation, long-distance relationship and multi-mobile) regarding employment and family life and it has implications both for labour market relations and for embarking on parenthood. This article aims to determine how spatial mobility at work can influence childless workers decision on having children in the context …
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain
This study analyses the effect of working conditions, educational background, job mobility, grandparental availability and co-worker attitudes on the duration of unpaid parental leave in Spain. The length of parental leave is a key factor in both the work–family life balance and the furtherance of gender equality in childcare. The data for the analysis were drawn from a 2012 survey on the use of parental leave involving a nationwide sample of 400…
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain
Paternity leave has been introduced in many countries as a way to foster father's co-responsibility in family obligations. This study aims \to analyse, for the Spanish case, if (1) the positive effects of the paternity leave are not only limited to the short term, but are maintained at medium and long term; (2) if a similar effect applies in the case of unemployment periods. Based on a subsample of 3388 cases derived from the Spanish Fertility Su…
Permisos parentales no remunerados y escuelas infantiles ¿son recursos de conciliación sustitutivos o complementarios
Las escuelas infantiles, las excedencias y las reducciones de jornada para el cuidado de niños son recursos fundamentales para la conciliación de las familias españolas. Este trabajo persigue conocer cómo condiciona el uso de los permisos parentales no remunerados la utilización de las escuelas infantiles durante los primeros tres años de vida de los hijos/as. Para ello, se utiliza la Encuesta sobre el uso de permisos parentales en España, 2012 y…
Consecuencias del permiso de paternidad en el reparto de tareas y cuidados en la pareja
Uno de los grandes objetivos de las políticas parentales dirigidasexclusivamente a varones es la igualdad de géneros. El objetivo de esteestudio es de comprobar si la utilización del permiso de paternidadfomenta la implicación y el reparto de actividades dentro de la esferareproductiva. Para ello se ha utilizado la encuesta «El uso social de lospermisos parentales 2012». Se han creado modelos analíticosmultivariantes, utilizando las técnicas de r…
The Use of Paternity Leave by Migrants in Spain
Studies focusing on how the migrant population understands and utilises family policies are scarce in Southern European countries. We focus on the use of paternity leave by American and European migrant fathers in Spain. This work is based on an online survey of parents (QUIDAN, 2021), which is nationally representative with a sample of 3100 respondents. We have conducted descriptive statistics and explanatory multivariate models. The main result…
Work-Family Balance Challenges (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Work (physics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Parental leave (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)