Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings related benefit that is granted for a … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out season effects by including the year before. Using …