Family policy and maternal employment in the Czech transition: a natural experiment

Alzbeta Mullerova ()
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Alzbeta Mullerova: EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Abstract: Czech family policies have gone through dramatic changes since the 1989 transition to a market economy, resulting into the highest employment gap between women with and without pre-school children in OECD. This paper focuses on the 1995 Czech Parental Benefit reform which extended the payment of universal parental benefits to four years instead of three without an equivalent extension of job-protected parental leave, leaving to mothers the choice of either guaranteed return to employment or an additional 12 months of benefits. The study relies on a difference-in-differences strategy to assess the net effect of this large-scale reform on mother's labour market participation. I find a strong negative impact on mothers' probability of return to work at the end of parental leave, with a heterogeneous size with respect to their educational attainment. I also find evidence of the persistence of this detrimental effect on mothers' employment beyond the short-term horizon targeted by the legislators.

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Date: 2017
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Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2017, pp.1 - 26

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