What Boosts the Employment Rate Among Women?: The Assessment of Work-Life-Balance Policies on Retaining Working Mothers
利用日本企业数据发现，支持全职投入工作的政策能提高育儿假使用率和产后返岗率，但育儿支持和弹性工作安排对女性高管比例影响不大，且这些政策不会损害企业绩效。
The employment rate after childbirth has risen over the past few years in Japan. Using firm-level data in 2006 and 2014, we find there is positive correlation between support for full commitment to their work and the rate of taking childcare leave, the rate of returning to work after taking maternity leave, ratio of females in full-time workers and in managers. Though the parenting support and flexible work arrangements have positive effects on the rate of childcare leave and return to work, they have little effect on the female ratio. Voluntary efforts for promoting female participation also have positive effects of retaining working mothers. Our findings of no relation between firm profit and working mother retention suggest that policies for promoting WLB have little chance of lending to deterioration in firm performance.