Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study

Lebedinski, Lara; Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko

doi:10.1007/s11150-022-09604-y

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“…In some aspects the case of Serbia fits well with other results available for postcommunist countries (Cukrowska-Torzewska and Matysiak, 2020; Lebedinski et al, 2020). The lack of the part-time options and low employment flexibility typically means that after an initial period of taking care of infants (children aged 0-2 years) women in Serbia return to the work they previously had, with the same working hours and wage rates.…”

Section: Parenthood and Labour Market Outcomes In Serbiasupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Other evidence on post-socialist countries suggests that after childbirth women in Russia initially experience strong employment penalties (a reduction in employment levels of between 40 and 65 percentage points), and while these penalties are lasting they stabilise at about 6% after five years (Lebedinski et al, 2020). The same study finds no penalties in terms of working hours or hourly wages.…”

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confidence: 88%

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Parenthood and labour market outcomes in Serbia

Lebedinski

Vladisavljević

2022

EKON ANAL

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Using the Labour Force Survey data for the period 2014 to 2018 for Serbia, this paper explores the effect of parenthood on the labour market trajectories of parents, the so-called ?parenthood penalty?. We find that mothers are less likely than non-mothers to be active in the labour market when their children are very young, but this effect is transitory, and mothers of older children are actually more likely to be active than non-mothers. Similarly, we observe that mothers of small children are less likely to work overtime than non-mothers, but also that both parents of older children are more likely to engage in overtime work than men and women without children. We find a motherhood penalty in terms of hourly wages for mothers with younger children, but the penalty is not significant as children become older. By contrast, fathers are more likely to be active than non-fathers. We do not find an effect of fatherhood on hours worked or hourly wages. Overall, our results suggest that the motherhood penalty is present in Serbia in the early stages when children are young, but motherhood does not seem to have lasting effects on the labour market participation, hours worked, or wage rates of mothers. We do not find evidence of a fatherhood bonus, but we find that fathers are more likely to be active than non-fathers.

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Section: Parenthood and Labour Market Outcomes In Serbiasupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Parenthood and labour market outcomes in Serbia

Lebedinski

Vladisavljević

2022

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“…The mothers' penalty stems exclusively from lower employment after childbirth; the authors do not find penalties in terms of working hours or hourly wage rates for women who remain in the labour force. The study also finds that parenthood decreases the probability of working in supervisory positions for mothers (Lebedinski et al, 2022). To the extent that the flagship programmes increase numbers of births, or move childbirth to an earlier point in the mother's work life, available evidence thus suggests that they hinder employment.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Evidence from Russia indicates that the effect of childbirth on mothers' employment generally is negative. A recent study by Lebedinski et al (2022) found that five years after childbirth, women suffer an earnings penalty, while no effect is observed for men. The mothers' penalty stems exclusively from lower employment after childbirth; the authors do not find penalties in terms of working hours or hourly wage rates for women who remain in the labour force.…”

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Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary

Cook

Iarskaia‐Smirnova²,

Козлов³

2022

Social Policy and Society

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During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises and adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well as policies to support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ pro-natalist programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, and Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. We confirm these policies had limited impacts on fertility, finding that their most significant and disparate effects were instead on childhood poverty. Provision of preschool public childcare and parental leaves with levels of mothers’ employment across the cases were compared. We find no relationship between coverage of childcare institutions and employment rates of mothers with young children. Data show a weak relationship between length and compensation for parental leaves and maternal employment. We conclude that post-communist governments’ flagship pro-natalist incentives, family policies and traditionalist rhetoric have had limited effects in reversing demographic decline or in re-traditionalising contemporary women’s lives.

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Sickness absences among young mothers and the child penalty in employment

Fontenay,

Tojerow

2024

Rev Econ Household

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Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study

Cited by 6 publications

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Parenthood and labour market outcomes in Serbia

Parenthood and labour market outcomes in Serbia

Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary

Sickness absences among young mothers and the child penalty in employment

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