Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection).Our first empirical …

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …

Norway. Our precise and robust difference-in-differences estimates reveal that there is little, if any, causal effect of … child care on maternal employment, despite a strong correlation. Instead of increasing mothers' labor supply, the new …

for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of … the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our difference-in-differences estimates show that the policy changes were … successful in improving labor market attachment and increasing disposable income of new lone mothers. By contrast, the reform led …