Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227854 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2020:6
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration. Likely pathways for this substantial reform effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence.
Subjects: 
female labor supply
maternal labor supply
parental leave
parental leave benefit
child-rearing benefit
JEL: 
J13
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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