Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central
objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of …

This paper investigates how firms and workers respond to a voluntary government-funded
program increasing the duration of paid maternity leave from four to six months in Brazil. We …

Despite a sizable literature on the labor market effects of maternity leave regulation on
women in developed countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing …

This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual propensity to
delay or skip medical care. Our research design exploits the arguably exogenous variation …

World Bank Document Page 1 Policy Research Working Paper 10188 The Impact of Paid
Maternity Leave on Women’s Employment Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data from …

A relatively large number of firms in Australia and in the US offer employer-funded parental
leave to their employees. We introduce employer-funded parental leave in a theoretical …

Using firm‐level survey data for 29,962 manufacturing firms in 141 developing and
emerging countries, the impact of exports (as a percentage of sales) on the share of female …

In response to the public's puzzle about why maternity leave has unexpectedly failed to
improve fertility problem in the Chinese context of a widespread extension of maternity …

This study examines the glass ceiling and sticky floor phenomena within the contexts of both
the public and private sectors in Türkiye, while exploring sector‐specific differences. To do …

Este artículo se enfoca en comprender integralmente los efectos de la jornada laboral de
“40 horas” establecida por la ley Nº 21.561 en Chile, especialmente en el ámbito de la …