What Do Unions Do for Mothers? Paid Maternity Leave Use and the Multifaceted Roles of Labor Unions

Tae Youn Park; Eun Suk Lee; John W. Budd

doi:10.1177/0019793918820032

What Do Unions Do for Mothers? Paid Maternity Leave Use and the Multifaceted Roles of Labor Unions

Tae Youn Park, Eun Suk Lee, John W. Budd

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The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles—with a focus on availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance—for enhancing workers’ paid maternity leave use. Using a panel data set of working women up to age 31 constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the authors find union-represented workers to be at least 17% more likely to use paid maternity leave than are comparable non-union workers. Additional results suggest that availability, awareness, and affordability contribute to this differential leave-taking. The authors also document a post-leave wage growth penalty for paid leave-takers, but do not find a significant union–non-union difference.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	662-692
Number of pages	31
Journal	ILR Review
Volume	72
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793918820032
State	Published - May 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We are grateful for the insightful comments and feedback from seminar participants at the Owen Graduate School of Management and the University of Newcastle (Australia) and from the LERA annual meeting and the ILERA World Congress participants. We also thank Jonghyuk Bae for his dedicated research assistance.

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Keywords

female labor
labor union
maternity benefits
work–family policies

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What Do Unions Do for Mothers? Paid Maternity Leave Use and the Multifaceted Roles of Labor Unions

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