%0 Report
        %A Schmieder, Julia
%A Weichselbaumer, Doris
%A Welteke, Clara
%A Wrohlich, Katharina
        %T Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17451
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17451
        %X 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.
        %K discrimination
%K parental leave
%K gender
%K hiring
%K experiment