Motherhood Penalty Revisited: Impacts of Maternity Leave Mandates on Nature of Employment Contracts.

In this paper we study the extension of paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks in India to estimate its effect on the contractual arrangements of working women. To identify causal effects, we exploit the variation generated by the institutional features of the policy mandate in India, which...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 1394 - 1412
Main Authors:	Bose, Saheli, Chatterjee, Somdeep
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2024
Subjects:	Women employees Women's employment Women's wages Young women Maternity leave Labor contracts
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