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Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
This study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave schemes with varying duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the introduction of more flexible scheme choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less...
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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Labour market effects of reducing the gender gap in parental leave entitlements
Del Rey, Elena; Racionero, Maria del Mar; Silva, José … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 72 (2021), pp. 1-12
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Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? : evidence from firm-level data
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif; Sakhonchik, Alena - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1145-1148
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Feminist firms
Bennett, Benjamin; Erel, Isil; Stern, Léa; Wang, Zexi - 2019
We explore how lowering labor market frictions for female workers affects corporate performance. Using the staggered adoption of state-level Paid Family Leave acts, we provide causal evidence on the value created by relieving frictions to accessing female talent, for private and public firms....
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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A gender story of social disengagement of young adults in Latin America
Liu, Chia; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Batyra, Ewa - 2022
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Are some sectors more "youth friendly" than others? : employment regimes, sectors, and gender disparities in the Great Recession
O'Reilly, Jacqueline; Grotti, Raffaele; Russell, Helen - In: Human resource management journal 29 (2019) 3, pp. 490-508
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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...
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Work and rural livelihoods : the micro dynamics of Africa's "youth employment crisis"
Carreras, Marco; Sumberg, James; Saha, Amrita - In: The European journal of development research 33 (2021) 6, pp. 1666-1694
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