Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/99043 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8190
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using Canadian linked employer-employee data covering the period 1999-2005, I examine the determinants of the availability of family-friendly "care" practices and the impact of such practices on wages. The results show that the provision of family-friendly practices is not mainly derived from socio-demographic characteristics of workers but rather from job- and firm-related factors. The findings also reveal that there is a trade-off between the provision of family-friendly practices and earnings indicating the existence of an implicit market in which workers face reductions in their wages. This result supports the hypothesis that family-friendly benefits are to some extent conceived as a gift or a signal that employers care about employees' family responsibilities and, in return, employees are willing to “buy” these practices and thus accept a wage offset.
Subjects: 
family-friendly "care" practices
linked employer-employee data
simultaneous probit model
wage equation
JEL: 
J13
J32
J70
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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