Extending EUROMOD with parental leave benefits (PLBs), Deliverable 9.3

In this report - constituting Deliverable 9.3 for Work Package 9 of the InGRID-2 project - we document the development of the new EUROMOD module on parental leave benefits (PLBs).

The previous versions of EUROMOD did not cover contributory maternity, paternity or parental benefits for all the EU countries because the EUROMOD input data do not contain necessary information on the employment history of respondents. We extended EUROMOD with the module that simulates these policies for potential recipients (and whenever possible for current recipients) using information about current employment of EU-SILC respondents and some common assumptions to calculate eligibility and entitlements.

The main objective of the module is to provide an opportunity for the assessment of the financial consequences of a simulated childbirth on household disposable income and thereby enable an assessment of the scale and distribution of replacement incomes in a cross-country comparative framework.