Parental leave from the firm’s perspective
In this study, we investigate whether government-funded paid parental leave affects strategic firm behaviour. We focus on the gender and age composition of the workforce as our main outcome. All firms are affected by laws regulating parental leave but differently due to strong gender segregation in labour markets. For identification, we exploit a series of expansionary reforms of the duration of paid parental leave in Norway that introduced long-lasting changes, and a long employer-employee matched panel data set following workers and firms back until before the first reforms. Using a Bartik-type instrument to identify causal effects at the firm level, we find evidence suggesting that firms substitute younger female employees with older female employees, and male employees.
Date: 25 April 2023, 16:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room A or https://zoom.us/j/97439169282?pwd=N2dVdGVPQmpoMUp2NnRvY2ZLNTJ1dz09
Speaker: Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics)
Organising department: Department of Economics
Part of: Applied Microeconomics Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Daria Ihnatenko