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Purna Baneerjee
Reserve Bank of India
Purna Banerjee is a Manager, Research at the Reserve Bank of India. She received her PhD from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai in 2019. She works in the areas of international trade, gender, and labour.
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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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