Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brenoe, Anne Ardila; Canaan, Serena; Harmon, Nikolaj A.; Royer, Heather N.
• 署名单位: University of Zurich; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Simon Fraser University; University of Copenhagen; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/725554
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1135-1174
• 关键词: gender-gap; LABOR; DYNAMICS; CHILDREN

摘要

We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find little evidence that parental leave take-up has negative effects on firms and coworkers overall. This is because most firms are very effective in compensating for the worker on leave by hiring temporary workers and by increasing other employees' hours. In contrast, we do find evidence that parental leave has negative effects on a small subsample of firms that are less able to use their existing employees to compensate for absent workers.