Parental leave length, social norms, and female labor market re-entry frictions

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F18%3A10374119" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/18:10374119 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0235" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0235</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0235" target="_blank" >10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0235</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Parental leave length, social norms, and female labor market re-entry frictions

Original language description

Purpose - This paper identifies the role of employers in creating employment gaps among women returning to the labor market after parental leaves of different durations. Methodology - The authors use a controlled correspondence field experiment that orthogonally manipulates parental leave length and the quality of fictitious female job candidates. The experiment is complemented with a survey among human resource managers. Findings - High-quality candidates receive more interview invitations when applying after a short parental leave, while low-quality candidates receive more interview invitations when applying after a typical three years long parental leave. Survey results suggest that the difference in invitations between short and typical leave treatments is driven by a social norm that mothers should stay home with children younger than three. Productivity gains from employing a low-quality job applicant with a shorter career break might not be high enough to outweigh the adverse social norm effect. Social implications - The presented results point towards the strong effect of prevailing social norms on job search prospects of women returning to the labor market after parental leave. Originality - A correspondence experiment has not been used before to study the relationship between time spent on leave and the labor market prospects of mothers. It also extends research on social norms to the domain of hiring decisions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP14-26574P" target="_blank" >GP14-26574P: Situation of womens in the labor market - occupation-level analysis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Manpower

ISSN

0143-7720

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

600-620

UT code for WoS article

000438870200007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85049972148