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Title: Local Parental Leave Assistance and Long-Term Effects on Female Labor Supply
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: Childbearing and rearing contributes to women experiencing greater working career interruptions than men, impacting future employment outcomes. I use New Jersey's 2009 mandate requiring employers to provide workers paid leave during their child's first year of life to assess how it affects subsequent employment. A spatial differencing method is carried out using American Community Survey from 2005 to 2012. The method compares difference-in-differences estimates of how the policy impacts potentially eligible women's employment in New Jersey to those same estimates for women living further away from New Jersey. A woman is deemed potentially eligible if she had a child in 2009 or later. This differencing strategy allied to the use of state by year fixed effects seeks to capture heterogeneity in local economic conditions that may bias estimated policy impacts. I find the policy increases married women's employment probability by approximately 3 percentage points in the year of potential leave take-up and this effect persists in the three subsequent years. Results are stronger for married women whose spouses are highly educated and no significant effects are found for men or single women.
Url: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/econ/seminars/NM_Paid_Leave_10-30-14.pdf
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Authors: Mota, Nuno
Publisher: Syracuse University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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