@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17451,
            	author={Schmieder, Julia and Weichselbaumer, Doris and Welteke, Clara and Wrohlich, Katharina},
            	title={Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market},
            	year={2024},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17451},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17451},
	abstract={Promoting fathers to take parental leave is seen as a promising way to advance gender equality. However, there is still a very limited understanding of its impact on fathers' labor market outcomes. We conducted a correspondence study to analyze whether fathers who take parental leave face discrimination during the hiring process in three different occupations. Fathers who took parental leave in a female-dominated or gender-neutral occupation are not less likely to be invited to a job interview compared to fathers who did not take leave. However, in the male-dominated occupation, fathers who have taken long parental leave are penalized. Regardless of leave-taking, fathers are treated less favorably than mothers in the female-dominated and the gender-neutral occupation, while the opposite is true for the male-dominated occupation. This suggests the presence of strong gender norms concerning the perception of ideal employees in different occupations.},
	keywords={discrimination;parental leave;gender;hiring;experiment},
            }