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- Title
Effects of Public and Private Policies on Working After Childbirth.
- Authors
Hofferth, Sandra L.
- Abstract
The article investigates the impact of public and private policies on working after childbirth. This article examines the link between state and employer policies and the employment behavior of mothers of infants. The authors first discuss previous research on working after childbirth, the development and expansion of employer and state policies, and their framework for why such policies should affect maternal employment behavior. The study to examine the effects of public and private policies on the employment patterns of mothers in the U.S. after childbirth finds that mothers who have access to employer-sponsored benefits return to work sooner. Those who have access to part!time work through their employer or to child care at the work site return to work part-time sooner, and mothers who have access to a flexible spending account or liberal unpaid leave return to full-time work sooner, than mothers who do not have access to such policies. Income is a consistent predictor of when a mother returns to work.
- Subjects
WOMEN employees; EMPLOYMENT policy; MOTHERS; CHILDBIRTH; FAMILY-work relationship; WOMEN'S employment
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 1996, Vol 23, Issue 4, p378
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888496023004004