| Autor: |
Josef Zweimüller, Camille Landais, Johanna Posch, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Andreas Steinhauer |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: |
1556-5068 |
| DOI: |
10.2139/ssrn.3731251 |
| Popis: |
Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then map these causal estimates into a decomposition framework building on Kleven, Landais and Sogaard (2019) to compute counterfactual gender inequality series. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender convergence. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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