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Too family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights

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dc.contributor.authorFernández Kranz, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Planas, Núria
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dc.date.accessioned2025-01-30T16:46:14Z
dc.date.available2025-01-30T16:46:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractWe use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities. Our analysis shows that well-intended policies can potentially backfire and aggravate labor market inequalities between men and women, since there is a very gendered take-up, with only women typically requesting part-time work. After the law was enacted, employers were 49% less likely to hire women of childbearing age, 40% more likely to separate from them, and 37% less likely to promote them to permanent contracts, increasing female non-employment by 4% to 8% relative to men of similar age. The results are similar using older women unaffected by the law as a comparison group. Moreover, the law penalized all women of childbearing age, even those who did not have children. These effects were largest in low-skill jobs, at firms with less than 10 employees, and in industries with few part-time workers. These findings are robust to several sensitivity analyses and placebo tests.
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dc.identifier.citationFernández-Kranz, D., & Rodríguez-Planas, N. (2021). Too family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights. Journal of Public Economics, 197, 104407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104407
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104407
dc.identifier.issn1879-2316
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3509
dc.journal.titleJournal of Public Economics
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.departmentEconomics
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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dc.subject.keywordFemale employment transitions and wages
dc.subject.keywordCompositional bias
dc.subject.keywordFixed-term and permanent contract employment
dc.titleToo family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights
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dc.volume.number197
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