The impact of family-friendly policies in Spain and their use throughout the business cycle

Artikel

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the family-friendly law (Act 39/99) approved in Spain in 1999, which grants parents the right to reduce work time schedule for childcare issues. We find an increase of work time reduction by around 18 %. Second, we find that employers restrict indefinite contracts to potential users of the law to limit its use. Finally, we find that in the recent downturn the use of the law decreased by around 13 % compared to the previous economic upturn.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ; ISSN: 2193-9012 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 9 ; Pages: 1-26 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: Policy evaluation ; Family-friendly policies ; Difference-in-difference ; Business cycle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): de la Rica, Sara ; Gorjón, Lucía
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40174-016-0059-0
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/195005
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET