Exact(14)
The duration of maternity leave may range from five days to eight weeks.
We summarize the duration of maternity leave and parental leave for women in one variable, which is referred to as maternity leave in the following.
The effect of the duration of maternity leaves has been given extensive consideration in the literature studying labor markets, women's health, and infant health (e.g., Galtry and Callister 2005).
Adsera (2004,2005) finds that on a country level the fertility and fraction of self-employed are negatively correlated while fertility and the duration of maternity leave are positively correlated.
Policies that address issues such as the duration of maternity leaves have the potential to facilitate time for mothers and infants to spend together and to develop secure attachments.
As we do not use the duration of maternity leave directly in the final wage regressions but only the incidence throughout a calendar year, measurement error should not bias our results.
Similar(46)
We will register the duration of the maternity leave, frequency and duration of sick leave from work (absenteeism) and the extent a women has worked but less efficient (presenteeism).
The author reported that the mother's nationality of origin, the duration of their maternity leave, and income are associated with exclusive BF at 4 months, while parity and the mother's age are not associated after adjustment for the other terms of the model.
The length of maternity leave is also shown to be associated with breastfeeding initiation and duration significantly [ 38– 41].
Length of maternity leave varies greatly among American mothers and the effects of length of maternity leave on mother child interactions and attachment have not been extensively studied.
This may be because midwives are typically more likely than other maternity colleagues to have sustained contact with women over the duration of pregnancy.
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