Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322833 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 10-14
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
In this paper we study the effect of parental leave on individual careers. We use individual registration data of a Dutch non-profit firm (Utrecht University). Our outcomes show that even with a short period of flexible leave there are career effects. More specifically, these effects are not unambiguously positive: slightly longer job durations are found, but also a lower probability of wage increases. It also appears that there are differences in effects between men and women: for men the effects appear to be smaller and of a more temporary character than for women. Apparently, even in a highly flexible system as the Dutch, with a high take up rate of men, the labour-care balance is still not gender neutral and not career neutral.
Subjects: 
Parental leave
Labour force participation
Labour career
Gender
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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