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Troeger, Vera (2019) Data for Bargaining over maternity pay : evidence from UK universities. [Dataset]
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HMKHFB
Abstract
The generosity of maternity pay has been shown to be an important factor for mothers’ attachment to the labour market. In the UK, we can observe that the generosity of maternity leaves across universities varies greatly: some universities top up the statutory maternity pay with longer and better paid leaves, others are either less generous or only entitle academic women to the legal minimum. We want to understand why this is the case. Therefore, this article examines both theoretically and empirically how higher education employers decide about the generosity of the offered occupational maternity pay. We use a bargaining approach to model the supply and demand side of generous maternity benefits in universities with different characteristics and test the implications with a generalised negative binomial model. We find that universities’ income does not account for this variation while differences in terms of costs and benefits for employers do. Most importantly, our results show that more research intense universities with a higher previous share of female professors provide more generous maternity pay. We offer a range of explanations for these findings.
Item Type: | Dataset | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Type of Data: | Observational data | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Maternity leave -- Great Britain, Universities and colleges -- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain, Women college teachers -- Great Britain | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Economics | ||||||
Official Date: | 18 February 2019 | ||||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Media of Output (format): | .do .dta | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick | ||||||
Description: | Data record consists of 2 Stata data files in .do and .dta format. |
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