The Effects of Reserve Component Mobilization on Civilian Employers

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Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

“…Our study can also be seen as enhancing our broad understanding of labor demand as a part of firms' production process and the possible presence of labor market frictions, expanding on much theoretical work (Stole & Zwiebel, 1996a,b;Cahuc et al , 2008;Acemoglu & Hawkins, 2014;Kaas & Kircher, 2015). In this vein, our paper contributes to the empirical literature on worker absences derived from sources other than parental leave (Azoulay et al , 2010;Bartel et al , 2014;Bennedsen et al , 2019;Drexler & Schoar, 2014;Golding et al , 2005;Gruber & Kleiner, 2012;Herrmann & Rockoff, 2012;Isen, 2013;Jaravel et al , 2018;Jäger & Heining, 2019;Bertheau et al , 2019;Krueger & Mas, 2004;Mas, 2008). As we discuss later, however, absences due to parental leave differ markedly from other types of worker absences by being temporary with a known end date and by being highly anticipated.…”

“…Empirically, a large existing literature has examined whether these effects of worker absence exist and how large they are, focusing on a range of different sources of worker absence, including worker deaths (Azoulay et al , 2010;Isen, 2013;Bennedsen et al , 2019;Jaravel et al , 2018;Jäger & Heining, 2019;Bertheau et al , 2019), labor disputes (Krueger & Mas, 2004;Mas, 2008;Gruber & Kleiner, 2012), illness (Herrmann & Rockoff, 2012;Drexler & Schoar, 2014), military reserve call-ups (Golding et al , 2005), and the departure of experienced nurses (Bartel et al , 2014). Broadly speaking, the results of this work are consistent with the presence of significant labor market frictions and with worker absences having important negative effects on firm and/or coworker outcomes.…”

Employer Partnership Program Analysis of Alternatives

“…The most commonly reported problems were "loss of seniority, seniority-related pay, or seniority-related benefits" and "military service considered a break in employment for pension benefit purposes. "2 See, for example, Congressional Budget Office (2005), U.S. Government Accountability Office (2007), andDoyle and Singer (2009).…”