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022			_a0022-0388
100			_aBose, Saheli _9122987
245		0	_aMotherhood Penalty Revisited: Impacts of Maternity Leave Mandates on Nature of Employment Contracts
260			_bThe Journal of Development Studies
260			_c2024
300			_a1394-1411
520			_aIn this paper we study the extension of paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks in India to estimate its effect on the contractual arrangements of working women. To identify causal effects, we exploit the variation generated by the institutional features of the policy mandate in India, which applies only to establishments employing 10 workers or more. We find that women are 4.3 percentage points less likely to be employed as regular salaried workers in the establishments as a result of this policy. We also show that there is an increase in the employment of women as unpaid and wage labourers in establishments, but no change takes place in women entrepreneurship. The effects appear to be driven by married and younger women confirming that the extension of maternity leave imposes a motherhood penalty in terms of women's labor market opportunities.
650			_a Female Workers _9122988
650			_a Maternity Leave Extension _9122989
650			_a Motherhood Penalty _9122990
650			_aContractual Arrangement _9122991
700			_a Chatterjee, Somdeep _9120249
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2348548
999			_c134410 _d134410