@article{510f0029c3d94baaa79e3084453c7f56,
title = "The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates",
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.",
author = "Spencer Bastani and Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto",
note = "Funding Information: A previous version of this paper circulated under the title, {\textquoteleft}Anti-discrimination legislation and the efficiency-enhancing role of mandatory parental leave{\textquoteright}. We are grateful to two anonymous referees, as well as Dan Anderberg, Katherine Cuff, Thomas Giebe, Nils Gottfries, Oskar Nordstr{\"o}m-Skans, Dan-Olof Rooth, and seminar participants at the NORFACE Welfare State Futures Conference, The Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) Annual Members Meeting, the CESifo Employment and Social Protection Conference, the International Institute of Public Finance Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, the Association for Public Economic Theory Annual Meeting in Paris, the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Economics Association in Tel Aviv, Ume{\aa} University, Linnaeus University, University of Siegen, University of Bologna, Bocconi University of Milan, and the Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm for helpful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. Financial Support from Riksbankens Jubileumfond and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Yale University.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/jleo/ewy021",
language = "English",
volume = "35",
pages = "77--126",
journal = "Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization",
issn = "8756-6222",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}
