Return to work after childbirth. Does parental leave matter in europe?

Autor/in	Pronzato, Chiara
Institution	University of Essex / Institute for Social and Economic Research
Titel	Return to work after childbirth. Does parental leave matter in europe? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Rückkehr an den Arbeitsplatz nach der Geburt eines Kindes. Spielt der Elternurlaub in Europa eine Rolle?
Quelle	Colchester (2007), 31 S.; 313 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	ISER working paper. 2007-30
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Mutter; Frau; Europäisches Haushaltspanel; Elternzeit; Familienpolitik; Erziehungsgeld; Einkommenshöhe; Erwerbstätigkeit; Familieneinkommen; Erwerbsunterbrechung; Internationaler Vergleich; Dauer; Erziehungszeit; Arbeitspapier; Freistellung; Institution; Europäische Union
Abstract	"The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of newborn children. Parental leaves have been introduced in the last 30 years in all European countries in order to extend the period of job-protection, allowing both parents to care for the child after the maternity leave period has expired. In this paper, I exploit the variability in policies offered by the EU countries, in terms of length of the leave and payments, and I study the influence of statutory leaves on the probability of staying at home with the child during the leave, and on the probability of working in the period of time following the leave. Using data from ECHP, I select women who have a child in the years of the survey, who have worked before, and I follow them over time. After studying the determinants of the return to work in each country separately, I generalize the results, matching women with similar human capital characteristics and fertility history from different countries and, consequently, under different parental leave regulations. Results suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost, and that lengthy statutory leaves are associated with being more likely to be at work in the period following the leave." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1994 bis 2001. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/3