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Female Labour Supply in the Czech Transition: Effects of the Work-Life Conciliation Policies

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  • Alzbeta Mangarella

    (EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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Czech conciliation policies, i.e. social, family and employment policies affecting households' fertility and employment choices, have gone through dramatic changes since the 1989 transition to market economy. After a brief presentation of conciliation policies and practices before and after the transition, we focus on the 1995 Czech Parental Benefit reform and we evaluate its impact on mothers' labour supply. The payment of parental benefits was extended to 4 years instead of 3 without an equivalent extension of the job protected parental leave, leaving to mothers the choice of either guaranteed employment or additional twelve months of benefits. We use difference in-differences strategy of identification to assess the net effect of this reform on mother's labour market participation. We find a sizeable and negative impact on mothers' probability of return to work at the end of the parental leave.

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  • Alzbeta Mangarella, 2014. "Female Labour Supply in the Czech Transition: Effects of the Work-Life Conciliation Policies," Working Papers hal-04141305, HAL.
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    2. Alzbeta Mullerova, 2017. "Workers or mothers? Czech welfare and gender role preferences in transition," EconomiX Working Papers 2017-6, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.

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    Keywords

    Female Labour Supply; Parental Leave and Benefit; Policy Evaluation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • P30 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - General

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