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Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries / Amin, Mohammad.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Amin, Mohammad.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies.
- Common Carriers Industry.
- Construction Industry.
- Developing Countries.
- Female Employment.
- Firms.
- Food and Beverage Industry.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- General Manufacturing.
- Labor Management and Relations.
- Labor Markets.
- Maternity Leave.
- Plastics and Rubber Industry.
- Pulp and Paper Industry.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Labor Markets.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Textiles Apparel and Leather Industry.
- Local Subjects:
- Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies.
- Common Carriers Industry.
- Construction Industry.
- Developing Countries.
- Female Employment.
- Firms.
- Food and Beverage Industry.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- General Manufacturing.
- Labor Management and Relations.
- Labor Markets.
- Maternity Leave.
- Plastics and Rubber Industry.
- Pulp and Paper Industry.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Labor Markets.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Textiles Apparel and Leather Industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 pages)
- Other Title:
- Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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.
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