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Maternity leave and paternity leave : evidence on the economic impact of legislative changes in high income countries
Canaan, Serena; Lassen, Anne Sophie; Rosenbaum, Philip; … - 2022
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation … for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … gender equality. Proponents of extending parental leave rights for mothers in terms of duration, benefits, and job protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168741
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Understanding the impacts of paid maternity leave on women's labor market outcomes
Bates, Lilian; Hall, Oliver; Jakiela, Pamela - 2023
All OECD countries except the United States offer at least four months of paid maternity leave, and the average duration of mandated paid maternity leave has increased steadily from 1970 to the present. There is some evidence that paid leave policies above a certain duration negatively impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422540
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Maternity leave and the responsiveness of female labor supply to a household shock
Tominey, Emma - 2013
US which increased employment protection from 0 to 12 weeks. We find that mothers eligible for FMLA speed up their return … with no paternal shock. In contrast, there was a negligible insurance response for mothers with no employment protection. …
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Work disability after motherhood and how paternity leave can help
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how … paternity leave. Our regression discontinuity difference-in-differences design shows that mothers with partners eligible for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295373
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Mothers at work: how mandating paid maternity leave affects employment, earnings and fertility
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Hassani-Nezhad, Lena; … - 2021
In July 2005, Switzerland introduced the first federal paid maternity leave mandate, offering 14 weeks of leave with 80% of pre-birth earnings. We study the mandate's impact on women's employment and earnings around the birth of their first child, as well as on their subsequent fertility by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596346
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Is longer maternal care always beneficial? : the impact of a four-year paid parental leave
Bičáková, Alena; Kalísková, Klára - 2022
adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … of home production. Sons of low-educated mothers, on the other hand, were less likely to be employed. The results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415664
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The economic consequences of family policies : lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607454
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The length of maternity leave and family health
Beuchert-Pedersen, Louise Voldby; Humlum, Maria Knoth; … - 2014
We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family. Using a reform of the parental leave scheme in Denmark that increased the number of weeks of leave with full benefit compensation, we estimate the effect of the length of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358767
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Unanticipated effects of California's Paid Family Leave program
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
We examine the effect of California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) on young women's (less than 42 years of age) labor force participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of paid leave over a 12 month period in order to bond with new born or adopted children, or to care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257599
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Career breaks after childbirth : the impact of family leave reforms in the Czech Republic
Bičáková, Alena; Kalíčková, Klára - 2016
the impact of two reforms of the duration of the parental allowance on the labor market status of mothers 2 to 7 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526725