Eligibility for maternity leave and first birth timing in Great Britain.

Autor/in	Zabel, Cordula
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	Eligibility for maternity leave and first birth timing in Great Britain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Anspruch auf Mutterschaftsurlaub und die erste Geburt in Großbritannien.
Quelle	Rostock (2007), 24 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2007-009
Beigaben	Tabellen 3; grafische Darstellungen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Geburtenentwicklung; Elternzeit; Geburt; Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Geburtenhäufigkeit; Mutterschaftsurlaub; Geburtenfolge
Abstract	"This paper examines the impact of maternity leave legislation on first birth timing in Great Britain. When maternity leave was introduced in Great Britain in 1976, the eligibility requirement for full-time employees was to have been working for the same employer for at least 2 years. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper examines whether women postponed first birth in accordance with tenure requirements for maternity leave. Higher transition rates to first birth are found for those who had acquired enough employer tenure to qualify for maternity leave than for those who did not yet qualify. However, the causal role of maternity leave legislation for first birth timing is uncertain, since transition rates to first birth began to diverge by employer tenure even before 1976." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2