TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Huebener, Mathias
AU  - Jessen, Jonas
AU  - Kühnle, Daniel
AU  - Oberfichtner, Michael
        TI  - A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave
        PY  - 2021/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14478
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14478
        AB  - Motherhood and parental leave interrupt employment relationships, likely imposing costs on firms. We document that mothers who are difficult to replace internally take shorter leave and that their firms hire replacements more often. Introducing more generous parental leave benefits erases the link between mothers' internal replaceability and their leave duration. In firms with few internal substitutes this reduces employment in the short-, but not longer-term. Firms respond by hiring fewer women of childbearing age into occupations where they are difficult to replace internally. Taken together, motherhood and generous parental leave policies burden firms that have few internal substitutes available.
        KW  - parental leave
KW  - worker absences
KW  - firm-specific human capital
KW  - substitution
KW  - statistical discrimination
        ER  -