Parental leave regulations, mothers’ labor force attachment and fathers’ childcare involvement: evidence from a natural experiment
@article{Kluve2013ParentalLR, title={Parental leave regulations, mothers’ labor force attachment and fathers’ childcare involvement: evidence from a natural experiment}, author={Jochen Kluve and M. Tamm}, journal={Journal of Population Economics}, year={2013}, volume={26}, pages={983-1005} }
In 2007, Germany implemented a generous parental leave regulation in order to make parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for mothers. We evaluate the reform using a natural experiment that compares outcomes of parents with children born shortly after and before the coming into effect of the law, and find a significant decrease in mothers’ employment probability during the 12 months after giving birth, and an increase in mothers’ employment probability… CONTINUE READING
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