The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2019, vol. 35, issue 1, 77-126

Abstract: A major factor that contributes to persistent gender variation in labor market outcomes is women’s traditional role in the household. Child-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job experience, are more prone to career discontinuities and, hence, suffer a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the gender-driven career/family segmentation of the labor market may create a normative justification for parental leave rules as a means to enhance efficiency in the labor market and alleviate the gender wage gap.

JEL-codes: D82 H21 J31 J83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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