Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/320487 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17893
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study investigates the firm's response to parental leave induced worker absence. Combining a 20-week maternal leave expansion in Norway and detailed matched employer-employee data between 1983 and 2013, we identify the causal impact of absence on outcomes using a shift-share design. Employers with greater exposure to absence hire more women aged 40 or less and face more employment turnover. These adjustments do not affect profits, but lead to greater investments and sales and to a lower value added and a lower wage bill. One important channel behind such changes is a significant growth of young female part-time employment.
Subjects: 
employer-employee matched data
part-time employment
corporate outcomes
firm-level gender employment dynamics
workforce composition
shift-share research design
JEL: 
L23
L25
J16
J21
J23
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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