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2.8 KiB
YAML
47 lines
2.8 KiB
YAML
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author: Broadway, B., Kalb, G., McVicar, D., & Martin, B.
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year: 2020
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title: The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labor Supply and Employment Outcomes in Australia
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publisher: Feminist Economics
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uri: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2020.1718175
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discipline: economics
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country: Australia
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period: 2009-2012
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maxlength: 14
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targeting: explicit
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group: working mothers
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data: national administrative surveys Baseline Mothers Survey (BaMS), Family and Work Cohort Study (FaWCS)
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design: quasi-experimental
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method: propensity score matching
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sample: 5000
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unit: individuals
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representativeness: national
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causal: 1 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
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theory:
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limitations: can not account for child-care costs; can not fully exclude selection bias into motherhood; potential (down-ward) bias through pre-birth labor supply effects/financial crisis
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observation:
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- intervention: paid leave
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institutional: 1
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structural: 1
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agency: 0
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inequality: gender; income
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type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
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indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
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measures: rtw
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findings: short-term (<6months) decrease of rtw; long-term (>6-9months) significant positive impact on returning to work in same job under same conditions; greatest response from disadvantaged mothers
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channels: supplants previous employer-funded leave which often did not exist for disadvantaged mothers; reduction in opportunity cost of delaying rtw
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direction: 1 # 0 neg / 1 pos
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significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
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notes: child-care costs may have additional dampening effect on rtw
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annotation: |
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A study on the introduction of univeral paid maternal leave in Australia, looking at its impacts on mothers returning to work and the conditions they return under.
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It finds that, while there is a short-term decrease of mothers returning to work since they make use of the introduced leave period, over the long-term (after six to nine months) there is a significant positive impact on return-to-work.
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Furthermore, there is a positive impact on returning to work in the same job and under the same conditions,
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the effects of which are stronger for more disadvantaged mothers (measured through income, education and access to employer-funded leave).
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This suggests that the intervention reduced the opportunity costs for delaying the return to work, and especially for those women that did not have employer-funded leave options, directly benefiting more disadvantaged mothers.
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Some potential biases of the study are its inability to account for child-care costs, as well as not being able to fully exclude selection bias into motherhood.
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There also remains the potential of results being biased through pre-birth labor supply effects or the results of the financial crisis, which may create a down-ward bias for either the short- or long-term effects.
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