What do unions do for mothers? Paid maternity leave use and the multifaceted roles of labor unions
Park, Tae-Youn ; Lee, Eun-Suk ; Budd, John W.
2019
72
3
May
662-692
maternity leave ; maternity benefit ; trade union role ; family policy ; women workers
Social protection - Family responsibilities
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0019793918820032
English
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"The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles—with a focus on availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance—for enhancing workers' paid maternity leave use. Using a panel data set of working women up to age 31 constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the authors find union-represented workers to be at least 17% more likely to use paid maternity leave than are comparable non-union workers. Additional results suggest that availability, awareness, and affordability contribute to this differential leave-taking. The authors also document a post-leave wage growth penalty for paid leave-takers, but do not find a significant union–non-union difference."
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