TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schmieder, Julia
AU  - Weichselbaumer, Doris
AU  - Welteke, Clara
AU  - Wrohlich, Katharina
        TI  - Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market
        PY  - 2024/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17451
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17451
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - discrimination
KW  - parental leave
KW  - gender
KW  - hiring
KW  - experiment
        ER  -