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Firms, family-friendly policies, and fertility

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
July 28, 2025
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Family-friendly policies often aim to make it ‘easier’ to have children, yet little is known about how firms respond to such policies. This column develops a structural model of the labour market and applies it to administrative data from Spain to show that while family-friendly policies that provide job security increase fertility by making motherhood […]

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How firms navigate parental leave: Evidence from Austria

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
July 8, 2025
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Faced with declining fertility rates and persistent gender gaps, governments have expanded policies to support working families. But sudden increases in allowable parental leave can impose wage costs on firms and negatively affect firm survival. This column examines how Austrian firms responded to a parental leave reform for which they could plan. Whether mothers could […]