TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Corekcioglu, Gozde
AU  - Francesconi, Marco
AU  - Kunze, Astrid
        TI  - Parental Leave from the Firm’s Perspective
        PY  - 2025/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17893
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17893
        AB  - This study investigates the firm’s response to parental leave induced worker absence. Combining a 20-week maternal leave expansion in Norway and detailed matched employer-employee data between 1983 and 2013, we identify the causal impact of absence on outcomes using a shift-share design. Employers with greater exposure to absence hire more women aged 40 or less and face more employment turnover. These adjustments do not affect profits, but lead to greater investments and sales and to a lower value added and a lower wage bill. One important channel behind such changes is a significant growth of young female part-time employment.
        KW  - employer-employee matched data
KW  - part-time employment
KW  - corporate outcomes
KW  - firm-level gender employment dynamics
KW  - workforce composition
KW  - shift-share research design
        ER  -