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100			_aGinja, R., Karimi, A. and Xiao, P. _939135
245			_aEmployer responses to family leave programs
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300			_a15(1), Jan, 2023: p.107-135
520			_aSearch frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from pre-birth employers. Firms with greater exposure to the reform hired additional workers and increased coworkers to make it coworkers' hours, incurring wage costs corresponding to 10 full-time equivalent months in addition to replacing the workers. These adjustment costs varied by firms' availability of internal substitutes. We also analyze a daddy-month reform and find similar employer responses to male workers' leave, albeit smaller in magnitude.- Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906			_aPARENTAL LEAVE
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