Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Périodique
Review of Economic Studies
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Lalive R., Schlosser A., Steinhauer A., Zweimüller J.
ISSN
0034-6527
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
01/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
81
Numéro
1
Pages
219-265
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Job protection and cash benefits are key elements of parental leave (PL) systems. We study how these two policy instruments affect return-to-work and medium-run labour market outcomes of mothers of newborn children. Analysing a series of major PL policy changes in Austria, we find that longer cash benefits lead to a significant delay in return-to-work, particularly so in the period that is job-protected. Prolonged parental leave absence induced by these policy changes does not appear to hurt mothers' labour market outcomes in the medium run. We build a non-stationary model of job search after childbirth to isolate the role of the two policy instruments. The model matches return-to-work and return to same employer profiles under the various factual policy configurations. Counterfactual policy simulations indicate that a system that combines cash with protection dominates other systems in generating time for care immediately after birth while maintaining mothers' medium-run labour market attachment.
Mots-clé
Parental leave, family and work obligations, return-to-work, labour supply, earnings, family earnings gap
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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