Prof. Hideo Owan (Waseda University) z wykładem na WNE

28 maja odbędzie się spotkanie będące częścią projektu Warsaw Economic Seminars. W trakcie prelekcji prof. Hideo Owan omówi zagadnienie “Hidden Benefits and Costs of Parental Leave: Evidence on Spillover Effects from Personnel Records”.

Prof. Hideo Owan z Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Waseda w pracy badawczej koncentruje się na ekonomii pracy, organizacji oraz zarządzaniu zasobami ludzkimi. Na WNE wygłosi wykład dotyczący wpływu urlopów rodzicielskich na natężenie pracy oraz satysfakcję pozostałych członków zespołu.

Zapraszamy – początek spotkania o godz. 17:00, w sali A201 (WNE UW). Z abstraktem można zapoznać się poniżej.

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This paper examines whether and to what extent a female coworker's parental leave increases the workload of remaining employees and affects their job satisfaction. Using personnel records from a large Japanese manufacturing firm, we estimate the causal effects on team members' monthly overtime hours using an event-study difference-in-differences approach. We find that coworkers' overtime hours do not increase substantially, rising by only about one additional hour per worker per month on average. The increase is concentrated among coworkers at higher job levels than the leave taker and among male coworkers. Moreover, the increase is statistically significant only when the leave duration is shorter than the median.

The limited increase in overtime can largely be explained by the firm's staffing practices, under which teams often receive replacement workers in advance of the leave period. Responses from employee engagement surveys further provide suggestive evidence that coworkers—especially female coworkers—experience personal growth and improved workplace communication following a colleague's parental leave.