Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177187 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11383
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the heterogeneous effects. The results of the extension of the maximum job-protected leave from 12 months to 15 months are as follows. First, the policy change led to more female employees taking leave more often and for longer periods. The impact of leave take-up on high wage earners is found to be smaller than that on their low wage counterparts, but that on duration is larger; this points to a fixed cost in switching between own and paid child care. Further, those in large firms tend to benefit more than those in small- or medium-sized firms. Second, the extension encouraged women to return to work 2–3 years after childbirth, but this effect diminished after 4 years. The findings suggest that the distributional effect should be considered in designing leave policy.
Subjects: 
parental leave
female labor supply
timing of childbearing
natural experiment
JEL: 
J13
J18
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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