Maternity Leave in Turbulent Times
Effects on Labor Market Transitions and Fertility in Russia, 1985-2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T P Gerber (0000-0001-8899-6815, corresponding author), B Perelli-Harris (0000-0001-8234-4007, University of Southampton) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1297-1322 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sf/sor043 |
| OpenAlex | W2150372537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 26 |
Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women's employment and fertility, but whether they actually play such a role remains unclear. We analyze the individual-level effects of maternity leave on employment outcomes and on second conception rates among Russian first-time mothers from 1985-2000 using retrospective job and fertility histories from the Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia. During this period Russia experienced tremendous economic and political turbulence, which many observers believed would undermine policies like maternity leave and otherwise adversely affect the situation of women. Nevertheless, we find that maternity leave helped women maintain a foothold in the labor market, even during the more turbulent post-transition period. Also, women who took extended leave (6-36 months) in connection with a first birth had elevated rates of second conceptions after they returned to the workforce
Birth rate · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Labour economics · Maternity leave · National Longitudinal Surveys · Parental leave · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Work (physics) · Workforce · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |