TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Johnsen, Julian V.
AU  - Ku, Hyejin
AU  - Salvanes, Kjell G.
        TI  - Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
        PY  - 2020/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13596
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13596
        AB  - Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to some new fathers, we find evidence consistent with the competition effect: A worker enjoys a better post-child earnings trajectory when a larger share of his colleagues take leave because of the policy. In contrast, we find no direct earnings effect resulting from the worker's own leave when controlling for their relative leave eligibility status within the firm.
        KW  - tournament
KW  - ranking
KW  - career interruptions
KW  - leave of absence
KW  - promotion
KW  - gender gap
        ER  -