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Author: Jahan, Murshed
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1. Jahan, Murshed
Do Employers’ Offers of Paid Maternity Leave Increase Women’s Job Satisfaction?
Applied Economics published online (17 January 2024).
Also: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2303621
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Benefits; Compensation, Non-Wage; Job Satisfaction; Maternity Leave; Maternity Leave, Paid; Women; Women of Childbearing Age

The importance of non-wage compensation like paid maternity leave may vary across workers in that the contribution of paid maternity leave to job satisfaction is more discernible for women of childbearing age than for men and older women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this study investigates the relationship between paid maternity leave offers and job satisfaction for women of childbearing age. However, individual-specific preferences for benefits may contribute to job satisfaction and having access to paid maternity leave. This study, therefore, uses an instrumental variable approach to address the presence of endogeneity in the relationship between paid maternity leave and job satisfaction. After instrumenting paid maternity leave variable appropriately, results from the bivariate probit model show that paid maternity leave offers positively contribute to women’s job satisfaction; women with paid maternity leave offers are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs than those with unpaid or no maternity leave offers. Furthermore, the findings remain consistent after conditioning the sample age at and above 24 years and firm size between 20 to 500 employees, respectively.
Bibliography Citation
Jahan, Murshed. "Do Employers’ Offers of Paid Maternity Leave Increase Women’s Job Satisfaction?" Applied Economics published online (17 January 2024).
2. Jahan, Murshed
Three Essays Examining the Impact of Paid Maternity Leave Offers on Women's Labor Market Outcomes
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Northern Illinois University, 2022
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Job Tenure; Labor Market Outcomes; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Wages

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This dissertation consists of three essays on the relationship between paid maternity leave benefit offers and different labor market outcomes of women of childbearing age. The first essay examines the impact of paid maternity leave offers in fringe benefit packages on wages of this particular group of women. Since the access to paid maternity leave and wage can be simultaneously determined by other factors, this essay uses an instrumental variable approach to estimate the effect. The information on access to paid maternity leave and other covariates for this analysis is extracted from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). The findings of this essay suggest that offerings of paid maternity leave in the fringe benefit packages help improve wages of women of childbearing age. Therefore, young working women with access to paid maternity leave benefits earn more than those who do not have access to paid maternity leave but are in the childbearing age.

Using the same dataset, NLSY97, the second essay examines the relationship between paid maternity leave offers and job tenure for women of childbearing age. The possibility of endogeneity in paid maternity leave variable is appropriately checked while estimating the relationship between paid maternity leave offers and job tenure. The results suggest that paid maternity leave offers increase job tenure of women of childbearing age and adding partial wage replacement to the current federal unpaid maternity leave benefit will positively contribute to job attachment for young women.

Finally, the third essay examines the importance of paid maternity leave offers in determining job satisfaction of women of childbearing age. The essay finds that paid maternity leave offers positively contributes to young women's job satisfaction. In all these three essays, the prevalence of the importance of paid maternity leave offers in determining women's wages, job tenure, and job satisfaction are checked for subsamples of firms of similar sizes (based on the number of employees). The significance of the effect of paid maternity leave benefits in determining these three labor market outcomes is maintained in the sub-sample results.

Bibliography Citation
Jahan, Murshed. Three Essays Examining the Impact of Paid Maternity Leave Offers on Women's Labor Market Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Northern Illinois University, 2022.