The impact of family-friendly policies in Spain and their use throughout the business cycle

Sara de la Rica and Lucía Gorjón

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the family-friendly law (Act 39/99) approved in Spain in 1999, which grants parents the right to reduce work time schedule for childcare issues. We find an increase of work time reduction by around 18 %. Second, we find that employers restrict indefinite contracts to potential users of the law to limit its use. Finally, we find that in the recent downturn the use of the law decreased by around 13 % compared to the previous economic upturn.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Rica, Sara de la ; Gorjón, Lucía
Published in:	IZA journal of European Labor Studies. - Heidelberg : SpringerOpen, ISSN 2193-9012, ZDB-ID 2687591-3. - Vol. 5.2016, 9, p. 1-26
Subject:	Policy evaluation \| Family-friendly policies \| Difference-in-difference \| Business cycle \| Spanien \| Spain \| Konjunktur \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Familie-Beruf \| Work-life balance \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1186/s40174-016-0059-0 [DOI] hdl:10419/195005 [Handle]
Classification:	C23 - Models with Panel Data ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J18 - Public Policy ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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