The Labor Standards Law of Taiwan requires employers to offer maternity and pregnancy benefits. Because these … experience a relative decline in employment, wages, or both. Using data from Taiwan's Manpower Utilization Survey for the years … 1978-96, the authors find that in those sectors of the economy covered by the legislation, wages and employment of young …

A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …