Original title: Career breaks after childbirth: the impact of family leave reforms in the Czech Republic
Authors: Bičáková, Alena ; Kalíšková, Klára
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2016
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 568
Abstract: The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study the impact of two reforms of the duration of the parental allowance on the labor market status of mothers 2-7 years after childbirth. While the 1995 reform prolonged the allowance from 3 to 4 years, the 2008 reform allowed some parents to shorten the duration of the allowance to only 2 or 3 years with an equivalent total monetary amount. We find that in response to the 1995 reform, 36% of mothers extended their family leave beyond the 3-year job protection period. The 2008 reform partially reversed this effect. Both reforms also had a considerable impact on post-leave unemployment and inactivity of mothers.
Keywords: family leave; female labor supply; unemployment
Project no.: GB14-36154G (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp568.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0261655

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