남성 육아휴직 사용에 대한 결합요인 분석 : 퍼지셋 질적비교분석을 통한 국제비교연구

The purpose of this study is to verify which combination of institutions, social cultures, micro-level characteristics explains the men's use of parental leave in 15 OECD countries. Despite the weakening of the traditional male-breadwinner model and the increasing participation of women in labour market, the overall gender disparity has rarely been alleviated in Korea. The various institutional efforts have been made to encourage men to use parental leave as part of the work-life reconciliation policy. Nevertheless, women's use of parental leave is still overwhelmingly high. The fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis was used to examine the combined patterns of seven conditions that are contributed to the high rate of male use. As a result, 1) in a society where there is a combination of individual non-transferable parental leave rights with a high payment rate, 2) in a society with high payment rates and equal gender norms, 3) in a society where social norms/individual consciousness are gender-equal and the public employment proportion is high, the male usage rate of parental leave is high. These analyses show that the efforts of policy design reform and change in labor market structure to enhance the use of men's parental leave can be more likely to achieved in a society with equal gender ideology.