A major factor that contributes to persistent gender variation in labor market outcomes is women's traditional role in the household. Child-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job experience, are more prone to career discontinuities and, hence, suffer a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the gender-driven career/family segmentation of the labor market may create a normative justification for parental leave rules as a means to enhance efficiency in the labor market and alleviate the gender wage gap.
The welfare-enhancing role of parental leave mandates / S. Bastani, T. Blumkin, L. Micheletto. - In: THE JOURNAL OF LAW ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION. - ISSN 8756-6222. - (2018 Nov 14). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1093/jleo/ewy021]
The welfare-enhancing role of parental leave mandates
L. Micheletto
2018
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A major factor that contributes to persistent gender variation in labor market outcomes is women's traditional role in the household. Child-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job experience, are more prone to career discontinuities and, hence, suffer a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the gender-driven career/family segmentation of the labor market may create a normative justification for parental leave rules as a means to enhance efficiency in the labor market and alleviate the gender wage gap.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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