The Family and Medical Leave Act and the labor productivity of parents

The Family and Medical and Leave Act of 1993 in the US expanded workplace provisions for leave-taking by working parents. In this note, I propose a method to estimate the effect of the FMLA on the productivity of working parents using variation in the labor share of income. I find that the FMLA increased parental productivity by an estimated 5 percentage points.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Dunbar, Geoffrey R.
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 118.2013, 2, p. 334-336
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Parental leave \| Labor productivity \| Labor share

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J38 - Public Policy
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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