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Debojyoti Mazumder
Reserve Bank of India
Debojyoti Mazumder is Manager, Research at Reserve Bank of India. He received his Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. His research interests include Labour and Macroeconomics.
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All is not well: Unintended consequences of maternity leave policy in India
In 2017, mandated paid maternity leave for women employees in India was increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. Analysing data for 160,000 households, this article finds that the policy change caused a fall in employment and income among women in the high-fertility age group. This was driven by a rise in firms’ ‘reservation productivity’ for hiring these women, since employers alone finance the leave.
04 March 2024
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