The effect of state maternity leave legislation and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act on employment and wages

By C. Baum. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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In Demography

1. Lawrence M. Kahn
2. Francine D. Blau
3. Nicole M. Fortin
4. Patricia Cortés
5. Jessica Pan
6. Da Ke
7. Luca Flabbi
8. Barbara Petrongolo

In Gender Studies

1. Francine D. Blau
2. Lawrence M. Kahn
3. Nicole M. Fortin
4. Jessica Pan
5. Marianne Bertrand
6. William B. Peterman
7. Da Ke
8. Stephan Klasen

In General Health Professions

1. Francine D. Blau
2. Lawrence M. Kahn
3. Nicole M. Fortin
4. Luca Flabbi
5. Barbara Petrongolo

Citations in the corpus

• Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap (2007, unknown): “Both Baum (2003b) and Waldfogel (1999) find that in the US, the FMLA had no significant effect on women’s wages.”
• Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS and the President Appeal of Housewifery (2015, background): “…the unpaid family leave, following the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), was insufficient to have direct effects on employment (Baum, 2003), the hortatory campaign that accompanied the FMLA may when changes in compulsory schooling laws were used as instruments for education in…”
• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “Most of these studies find that while the FMLA increased leave-taking, it had little measurable impact on the employment and wages of eligible women (Waldfogel, 1999; Han et al., 2009; Baum, 1999).”
• The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model (2008, unknown): “Klerman and Leibowitz 1997, 1999, and Baum 2003) do not find a significant relationship, while others find that there is a significant relationship between maternity leave coverage and mothers’ labour force participation – for example, Berger and Waldfogel (2004), Waldfogel (1998), Hashimoto, Percy,”
• The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “Empirical evidence for the United States suggests that the effect of the FMLA has been modest; it has been found to have a small positive effect on employment and no effect on wages (Baum 2003 and Waldfogel 1999).”