Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Arizo Karimi, Erica Lindahl () and Peter Skogman Thoursie ()
Additional contact information
Erica Lindahl: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2012:22, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in fathers’ take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to three major reforms in the Swedish parental leave system, recognizing that take up of paid parental leave might not fully reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers decreased their labour supply to the same extent as a response to an increase in paid parental leave without gender restrictions. In contrast, we find no support for any changes in fathers’ labour supply due to reforms introducing gender quotas in paid leave.

Keywords: natural experiment; parental leave; labour supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J22 J48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2012-11-26
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2012/wp12-22-Labo ... d-parental-leave.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2012/wp12-22-Labour-supply-responses-to-paid-parental-leave.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2012/wp12-22-Labour-supply-responses-to-paid-parental-leave.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2012_022

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy IFAU, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ali Ghooloo ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).