Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo : Five Key Messages
Labor market engagement of women is very low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age are employed compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These barriers can be related to a mu...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355271521449544766/Maternity-leave-and-women-s-labor-market-status-in-Kosovo-five-key-messages http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29549 |
| Summary: | Labor market engagement of women is very
low in Kosovo - only 12.5 percent of women of working age
are employed compared to 41.3 percent of men - suggesting
that women face obstacles to work and or being hired. These
barriers can be related to a multiplicity of factors,
including labor regulations - such as maternity provisions -
but also others such as disincentives to work from taxes and
social protection systems; limited flexible work
arrangements; limited access to information, networks, and
productive inputs such as credit; and lack of access to
childcare, coupled with social norms and attitudes towards
women. This note focuses specifically on regulations related
to maternity and family leave, and their potential impact on
women’s labor market outcomes. Legislation on maternity
leave in Kosovo was enacted with the law on labor on
December 2010, providing mothers to nine months of paid
leave and three months of unpaid leave. The note is
organized around five main messages that emerge from
reviewing the evidence of the impact of maternity leave on
female labor force participation and employment, both
through international benchmarking of maternity leave
duration and payment forms in Kosovo, review of existing
studies, and through data collection and analysis of
Kosovo-specific qualitative evidence. |
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