Fam mat leave amount repl own
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Replacement rate |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels |
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| Technical name | fam_mat_leave_amount_repl_ own |
| Category | Family and gender policies |
| Label | Amount - Maternity leave (own coding) |
| Related indicators |
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Amount of maternity benefit in replacement rate
Coding rules
We extracted the replacement rate (i.e. the percentage of prior wage) from the “amount of maternity benefit (in original units)”. In cases of flat rates or minimum wages, we standardized these into replacement rates based on other existing databases. However, in certain instances where we could not find relevant information to convert the absolute values to replacement rates, these cases are coded as “-777”, see below:
Bangladesh (1939-1950): amount depends on prior wage
Bulgaria (1924): 12 leva per day
China (1923-1929): allowance
Czechoslovakia (1948): 15 – 159 Czechoslovak koruna per day
Denmark (1892-1913): unknown
Fiji (1975-1995): 1 – 5 Fiji dollars a day
France (1913-1935): 0.5 – 3 franc a day
Hungary (1891-1907): equal to sick pay
India (1948-1963) 12 annas per day
Italy (1929-1934): 1.75 – 4.5 lire per day
Kyrgyzstan (2010): 7 times minimum wage
Malaysia (1955-2012): numerical value Malaysian ringgit per day
Norway (1946-1956): 2 – 6 krone per day
South Africa (1918-1929): 20 shillings per week
Spain (1929): benefit in proportion to contribution period (15 pesetas per quarter of contribution in past 3 years)
Sweden (1919-1931): 2 Swedish krona
Switzerland (1911-1967): 1 – 2 swiss franc per day
Russia (1993-1997): 100% of minimum wage
United Kingdom (1946-1969): 36 shilling or 5 pound sterling per week
Zambia (1965-1995): 65 – 10,00 kwacha
Bibliographic info
Citation: Keonhi Son, Tobias Böger, Simone Tonelli, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink, 2020, “Codebook of Historical Database on Maternity Leave (HDML)”, available at: “https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/sfb-publikationen/sfb-1342-technical-paper-series”.
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Misc
Project manager(s): Keonhi Son, Tobias Böger, Simone Tonelli, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink (A06)
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Sources
Before 1949:
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- Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Various years. Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH). Munich: Max Planck Institute. https://splash-db.eu/
- OECD. 2017. OECD Family database, PF 2.5 Annex: Detail of change in parental leave by country, Paris: OECD Publishing. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/PF2_5_Trends_in_leave_entitlements_around_childbirth_annex.pdf
1949–1989:
- Gauthier, Anne H. 2011. Comparative Family Policy Database. Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/cgi-bin/databases/FamPolDB/about.plx
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Since 1990:
- Council of Europe. Various years. Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO). Strasbourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-social-charter/missceo-database
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