TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fakih, Ali
        TI  - Availability of Family-Friendly Work Practices and Implicit Wage Costs: New Evidence from Canada
        PY  - 2014/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8190
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8190
        AB  - Using Canadian linked employer-employee data covering the period 1999-2005, I examine the determinants of the availability of family-friendly "care" practices and the impact of such practices on wages. The results show that the provision of family-friendly practices is not mainly derived from socio-demographic characteristics of workers but rather from job- and firm-related factors. The findings also reveal that there is a trade-off between the provision of family-friendly practices and earnings indicating the existence of an implicit market in which workers face reductions in their wages. This result supports the hypothesis that family-friendly benefits are to some extent conceived as a gift or a signal that employers care about employees' family responsibilities and, in return, employees are willing to “buy” these practices and thus accept a wage offset.
        KW  - family-friendly "care" practices
KW  - linked employer-employee data
KW  - simultaneous probit model
KW  - wage equation
        ER  -