TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Puhani, Patrick A.
AU  - Sonderhof, Katja
        TI  - The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
        PY  - 2008/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3820
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3820
        AB  - Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control groups of older women and older women together with young and older men. We find that maternity leave extension negatively affects job-related training for young women, even if they do not have children, especially when the focus is on employer-arranged training. There is tentative evidence that young women partly compensated for this reduction in employer-arranged training by increasing training on their own initiative.
        KW  - education
KW  - evaluation
KW  - policy
        ER  -