Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress

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We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership positions. We detect no differential effect across many characteristics, and no impact on other outcomes, such as hours worked and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and between mothers and their partners.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15585

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation ; Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
• Subject: gender inequality ; within-firm pay ranking ; glass ceiling ; leadership ; top executives

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Corekcioglu, Gozde ; Francesconi, Marco ; Kunze, Astrid
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/265806
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET