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

The 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...

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Main Authors:	Amin, Mohammad, Islam, Asif
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	MATERNITY LEAVE GENDER FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606031548250184438/Paid-Maternity-Leave-and-Female-Employment-Evidence-Using-Firm-Level-Survey-Data-for-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31183

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spelling	okr-10986-311832022-09-11T12:17:26Z Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif MATERNITY LEAVE GENDER FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET The 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. 2019-01-31T23:23:44Z 2019-01-31T23:23:44Z 2019-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606031548250184438/Paid-Maternity-Leave-and-Female-Employment-Evidence-Using-Firm-Level-Survey-Data-for-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31183 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8715 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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spellingShingle	MATERNITY LEAVE GENDER FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8715
description	The 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.
format	Working Paper
author	Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif
author_facet	Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif
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title	Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
title_short	Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
title_full	Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
title_fullStr	Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
title_full_unstemmed	Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries
title_sort	paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606031548250184438/Paid-Maternity-Leave-and-Female-Employment-Evidence-Using-Firm-Level-Survey-Data-for-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31183
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Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

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