The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates

Spencer Bastani; Tomer Blumkin; Luca Micheletto

doi:10.1093/jleo/ewy021

The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates

Spencer Bastani
, Tomer Blumkin
, Luca Micheletto

Department of Economics

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-126
Number of pages	50
Journal	Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewy021
State	Published - 1 Mar 2019

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Law

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