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Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

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dc.contributor.authorAmin, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Asif
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T23:23:44Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T23:23:44Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractThe relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two. According to the most conservative estimate, an increase of one week of paid maternity leave is associated with a 2.6 percentage points increase in the share of workers in a typical firm that are female. As expected, the stated relationship is much larger when the government pays for maternity leave versus the employer. The results are robust to several controls for firm and country characteristics and other possible heterogeneities in the maternity leave and female workers relationship.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606031548250184438/Paid-Maternity-Leave-and-Female-Employment-Evidence-Using-Firm-Level-Survey-Data-for-Developing-Countries
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8715
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31183
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8715
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectMATERNITY LEAVE
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectFEMALE EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.titlePaid Maternity Leave and Female Employmenten
dc.title.subtitleEvidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countriesen
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okr.crossref.titlePaid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
okr.date.disclosure2019-01-23
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606031548250184438/Paid-Maternity-Leave-and-Female-Employment-Evidence-Using-Firm-Level-Survey-Data-for-Developing-Countries
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8715
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okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economic Policy
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Wages, Compensation & Benefits
okr.unitGlobal Indicators Group, Development Economics
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