TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Corekcioglu, Gozde
AU  - Francesconi, Marco
AU  - Kunze, Astrid
        TI  - Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress
        PY  - 2022/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15585
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15585
        AB  - We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership positions. We detect no differential effect across many characteristics, and no impact on other outcomes, such as hours worked and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and between mothers and their partners.
        KW  - glass ceiling
KW  - within-firm pay ranking
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - leadership
KW  - top executives
        ER  -