Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm Data

For a sample of 53 developing countries, the results show that women's employment among private firms is significantly higher in countries that mandate paternity leave versus those that do not. A conservative estimate suggests an increase of 6.8 percentage points in the proportion of women workers associated with the mandating of paternity leave

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Amin, Mohammad ; Islam, Asif ; Sakhonchik, Alena
Publisher:	2016: World Bank, Washington, DC

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 7588
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	English en_US
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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