Arbeitspapier

Availability of Family-Friendly Work Practices and Implicit Wage Costs: New Evidence from Canada

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8190

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
Labor Discrimination: General
Thema
family-friendly "care" practices
linked employer-employee data
simultaneous probit model
wage equation

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Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fakih, Ali
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fakih, Ali
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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