La réforme du congé parental de 2015 : un impact hétérogène sur les mères et les pères selon les groupes sociaux et le contexte local

The 2015 parental leave reform reduced the duration of compensation from three to two years for families giving birth to a second or higher order child, if it is not shared between parents. Using exhaustive administrative data and a discontinuity regression method, this article highlights the highly heterogeneous effects of this reform according to parental characteristics and local context. Mothers who had to give up a third year of paid parental leave as a result of this reform have specific profiles. These profiles are also very different depending on whether, after the birth, mothers opt for full-time parental leave (stop working) or for part-time parental leave (reducing their number of hours worked). While this reform has not really encouraged fathers to extend their spouses? parental leave on a full-time basis, some have done so on a part-time basis. These are particularly middle-income fathers, whose wives earn high incomes, are public-sector employees and have access to childcare.