Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2016
labor market equilibrium where career-oriented workers are offered an inefficiently low duration of parental leave. In … demonstrate the usefulness of mandatory parental leave rules in mitigating the distortion in the labor market and derive … conditions under which a Pareto improvement is possible. We also characterize the optimal parental leave policy and highlight the …