How Does Job‐Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers’ Employment?

By Michael Baker, Kevin S. Milligan. Journal of Labor Economics, 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap (2007, unknown): “The bold columns ((2), (6) and (18)) in Table 5 report several estimates for the delay in the return to work for the three major changes in maternity leave legislation (i.”
• Return to work after childbirth: does parental leave matter in Europe? (2009, background): “…topic, in the US context, shows a negligible influence of statutory leave duration on the time taken by the women to return to work (Han et al., 2007; Hashimoto et al., 2004; Baum, 2003; Klerman and Leibowitz, 1997) while the Canadian experience indicates a larger effect (Baker and Milligan, 2005).”
• Parental leave regulations and the persistence of the male breadwinner model: Using fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to assess gender equality in an enlarged Europe (2012, background): “In spite of this, research on parental leave has largely focused on its relation to maternal employment (Gornick et al., 1997; Ruhm, 1998; Hofferth and Curtin, 2006; Baker and Milligan, 2008; Spiess and Wrohlich, 2008; Pronzato, 2009).”
• What is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave? (2013, unknown): “4See, for example, Baker and Milligan, 2008a, 2008b, 2010; Carneiro, Løken and Salvanes, 2011; Dustmann and Schönberg, 2012; Lalive et al., forthcoming; Lalive and Zweimuller, 2009; Liu et al., 2010; Rasmussen, 2010; Rossin, 2011; Ruhm, 2000; Schönberg and Ludsteck, forthcoming; and Waldfogel et…”
• Labour Market Effects of Parental Leave Policies in OECD Countries (2013, unknown): “Baker and Milligan (2008) obtain similar results for Canada. There the proportion of women quitting their jobs has fallen and the share of those returning to their pre-birth employers has increased since the introduction of 17-18 weeks of mandated leave. A further extension of job-protected leave, u”
• Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility (2010, unknown): “See Ondrich, Spiess, Yang and Wagner (2003), Han, Ruhm and Waldfogel (2007), and Baker and Milligan (2008).”
• Maternity and Family Leave Policy (2017, unknown): “For instance, in Canada, an extension of paid maternity leave from six to twelve months increased maternal time at home and breastfeeding rates, but had no impacts on indicators of children’s cognitive or behavioral development in early childhood (Baker and Milligan, 2008b, 2010, 2015).”
• Parental leave regulations, mothers’ labor force attachment and fathers’ childcare involvement: evidence from a natural experiment (2013, background): “…maternal labor market re-entry, and that maternal labor market re-entry highly concentrates to the period after expiry of paid or unpaid parental leave (e.g. Rønsen and Sunderström 2002, Baker and Milligan 2008, Schönberg and Ludsteck 2008, Lalive and Zweimüller 2009, Hanratty and Trzcinski 2009).”