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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Publicado en:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 1394 - 1412
Autores principales:	Bose, Saheli, Chatterjee, Somdeep
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2024
Materias:	Women employees Women's employment Women's wages Young women Maternity leave Labor contracts
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