What is the impact of reducing the parental leave benefit on mothers’ work? Evaluation of the 2015 reform

Quel est l’effet d’une réduction de la durée d’indemnisation du congé parental sur l’activité des mères ? Une évaluation de la réforme de 2015

Mathieu Narcy and Florent Sari
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Florent Sari: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, CEET - Centre d'études de l'emploi et du travail - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the extent to which the reform of parental leave, which came into force in January 2015, may have changed the likelihood of mothers using this system, since the parental leave benefit no longer covers the entire period from birth to the child's schooling. To identify the causal impact of this reform, we use the data from the Labour Force Survey and implement an empirical methodology that combines a discontinuity design with a difference-in-differences approach. This reform has reduced the likelihood of taking full-time parental leave by around 10 percentage points. In addition, the mothers most affected by this reform are the least educated and private sector employees.

Keywords: Parental leave; Reform; Labour supply; Regression discontinuity design; Difference-in-differences; Congé parental; Réforme; Offre de travail; Régression sur discontinuité; Méthode des doubles différences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-02-22
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Published in Revue Economique, 2021, 72 (2), pp.185-213. ⟨10.3917/reco.pr2.0158⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.pr2.0158

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