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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Is parental leave costly for firms and coworkers?
Organization Unit	Department of Economics (Florian Scheuer)
Authors	Anne Ardila Brenøe Serena Canaan Nikolaj A Harmon Heather N Royer
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series
Number	11
Number of Pages	112
Date	2023
Abstract Text	We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find little evidence that parental leave take-up has negative effects on firms and coworkers overall. This is because most firms are very effective in compensating for the worker on leave by hiring temporary workers and by increasing other employees’ hours. In contrast, we do find evidence that parental leave has negative effects on a small subsample of firms which are less able to use their existing employees to compensate for absent workers.
Official URL	https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:eb04b723-78c6-45fc-a5df-0aafba67ff0d/11_bchr_final.pdf
Related URLs	https://doi.org/10.3386/w26622 https://www.nber.org/papers/w26622 https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/Discussion-Paper-Series.html https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/181869/
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Additional Information	Auch publiziert als NBER Working Paper No. 26622 (10.3386/w26622).