Tominey, Emma orcid.org/0000-0002-0287-3935 (2016) Female Labour Supply and Household Employment Shocks:Maternity Leave as an Insurance Mechanism. European economic review. pp. 256-271. ISSN 0014-2921
Abstract
This paper investigates the role of unpaid maternity leave in providing household insurance against paternal employment shocks. The main outcome is the timing of a mothers’ return to work after having a child. Exploiting the US Family and Medical Leave Act, we find that mothers eligible for maternity leave speed up their return to work in response to a paternal shock, with the conditional probability of being in work 49% higher than in households with no unpaid maternity leave. Further evidence is provided on the insurance role of unpaid maternity leave through i) no significant interaction between paid maternity leave and the paternal shock and ii) smoothing of consumption effects of the shock for households covered by unpaid leave.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, Elsevier B.V. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Female labour supply,Insurance,Maternity leave |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number THE BRITISH ACADEMY B00232071 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2016 08:31 |
Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2025 00:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.04.006 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.04.006 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100373 |
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