Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages
Labor market engagement of women is very low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age are employed compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These barriers can be related to a mu...
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okr-10986-295492021-04-23T14:04:53Z Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages Davalos, Maria E. Elezaj, Ereblina Flanagan Thurau, Julianna Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes MATERNITY LEAVE WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR POLICY GENDER EQUALITY EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET Labor market engagement of women is very low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age are employed compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These barriers can be related to a multiplicity of factors, including labor regulations - such as maternity provisions - but also others such as disincentives to work from taxes and social protection systems; limited flexible work arrangements; limited access to information, networks, and productive inputs such as credit; and lack of access to childcare, coupled with social norms and attitudes towards women. This note focuses specifically on regulations related to maternity and family leave, and their potential impact on women’s labor market outcomes. Legislation on maternity leave in Kosovo was enacted with the law on labor on December 2010, providing mothers to nine months of paid leave and three months of unpaid leave. The note is organized around five main messages that emerge from reviewing the evidence of the impact of maternity leave on female labor force participation and employment, both through international benchmarking of maternity leave duration and payment forms in Kosovo, review of existing studies, and through data collection and analysis of Kosovo-specific qualitative evidence. 2018-03-29T20:32:02Z 2018-03-29T20:32:02Z 2015-09-21 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355271521449544766/Maternity-leave-and-women-s-labor-market-status-in-Kosovo-five-key-messages http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29549 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Kosovo |
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MATERNITY LEAVE WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR POLICY GENDER EQUALITY EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET Davalos, Maria E. Elezaj, Ereblina Flanagan Thurau, Julianna Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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Labor market engagement of women is very
low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age
are employed compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting
that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These
barriers can be related to a multiplicity of factors,
including labor regulations - such as maternity provisions -
but also others such as disincentives to work from taxes and
social protection systems; limited flexible work
arrangements; limited access to information, networks, and
productive inputs such as credit; and lack of access to
childcare, coupled with social norms and attitudes towards
women. This note focuses specifically on regulations related
to maternity and family leave, and their potential impact on
women’s labor market outcomes. Legislation on maternity
leave in Kosovo was enacted with the law on labor on
December 2010, providing mothers to nine months of paid
leave and three months of unpaid leave. The note is
organized around five main messages that emerge from
reviewing the evidence of the impact of maternity leave on
female labor force participation and employment, both
through international benchmarking of maternity leave
duration and payment forms in Kosovo, review of existing
studies, and through data collection and analysis of
Kosovo-specific qualitative evidence. |
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Davalos, Maria E. Elezaj, Ereblina Flanagan Thurau, Julianna Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes |
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Davalos, Maria E. Elezaj, Ereblina Flanagan Thurau, Julianna Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes |
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Davalos, Maria E. |
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Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages |
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maternity leave and women’s labor market status in kosovo : five key messages |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2018 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355271521449544766/Maternity-leave-and-women-s-labor-market-status-in-Kosovo-five-key-messages http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29549 |
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