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Taking four weeks of parental leave during a child’s first year decreases fathers’ future earnings by 1-3pc, with the effects lasting at least five years, according to a study of Norway’s paternity-leave policy by Mari Rege and Ingeborg F. Solli of the University of Stavanger. The effect is apparently due to fathers’ shifting their time and effort from their jobs to their homes while their children are young, rather than to any perception on employers’ part that the fathers are less reliable.
(Source: Demography)
Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, November 30th, 2015
