Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

No 2020:6, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration. Likely pathways for this substantial reform effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence

Keywords: female labor supply; maternal labor supply; parental leave; parental leave benefit; child-rearing benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 92 pages
Date: 2020-05-04
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Journal Article: Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave (2023)
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