Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Analysis using firm-level data for a sample of 33,302 firms in 53 developing countries shows that women’s employment among private firms is significantly higher in countries that mandate paternity leave versus those that do not. A conservative estimate suggests an increase of 6.8 percentage points i...

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Main Authors:	Amin, Mohammad, Islam, Asif, Sakhonchik, Alena
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	gender paternity leave women's employment labor laws
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25027

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spelling	okr-10986-250272021-05-25T10:54:42Z Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif Sakhonchik, Alena gender paternity leave women's employment labor laws Analysis using firm-level data for a sample of 33,302 firms in 53 developing countries shows that women’s employment among private firms is significantly higher in countries that mandate paternity leave versus those that do not. A conservative estimate suggests an increase of 6.8 percentage points in the proportion of women workers associated with mandating paternity leave. The empirical specification is immune to spurious correlations that affect the level of women and men employment equally and also robust to a large number of controls for country and firm characteristics. 2016-09-08T19:17:11Z 2016-09-08T19:17:11Z 2016-07-06 Journal Article Applied Economics Letters 1350-4851 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25027 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	gender paternity leave women's employment labor laws Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif Sakhonchik, Alena Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
description	Analysis using firm-level data for a sample of 33,302 firms in 53 developing countries shows that women’s employment among private firms is significantly higher in countries that mandate paternity leave versus those that do not. A conservative estimate suggests an increase of 6.8 percentage points in the proportion of women workers associated with mandating paternity leave. The empirical specification is immune to spurious correlations that affect the level of women and men employment equally and also robust to a large number of controls for country and firm characteristics.
format	Journal Article
author	Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif Sakhonchik, Alena
author_facet	Amin, Mohammad Islam, Asif Sakhonchik, Alena
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title	Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
title_short	Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
title_full	Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
title_fullStr	Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
title_full_unstemmed	Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
title_sort	does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? : evidence from firm-level data
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25027
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Does Paternity Leave Matter for Female Employment in Developing Economies? : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

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