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Epifanio, Mariaelisa and Troeger, Vera (2020) Bargaining over maternity pay : evidence from UK universities. Journal of Public Policy, 40 (3). pp. 349-374. doi:10.1017/S0143814X19000059 ISSN 0143-814X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X19000059
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: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Maternity leave -- Great Britain, Universities and colleges -- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain, Women college teachers -- Great Britain | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Policy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0143-814X | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 349-374 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0143814X19000059 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Public Policy http://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X19000059. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © Cambridge University Press 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 May 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 May 2019 | ||||||||
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