AustraliaFamily and Matrimonial The Federal Government has amended its Paid Parental Leave ("PPL") scheme so as to provide wider and more flexible options to families seeking access to PPL. The changes aim to introduce key aspects of the Government's Women's Economic Security Package...
It reports that under the scheme, qualified employees can be given as much as 18 weeks of parental leave pay at the national minimum wage. Based on the survey conducted by Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Australia to its members, 15% claimed that employers should not participate in the ...
Paid parental leave has become an increasingly important part of family policy in OECD countries: by 2004 on average over a year of leave paid at 59% of average wages was provided. Australia's Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was introduced in 2011 and provides 18 weeks of leave paid at ...
Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we estimate how paid parental leave entitlements influence children's health up to age 7. Exploit...
摘要: Paid family leave increased exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months by at least 15%.Historically disadvantaged mothers exhibit larger effects.Results provide strong implications for the benefits of state paid family leave expansions....
Parental LeaveMaternity LeaveFamily and Medical Leave Actpaid family leaveAustraliaComparative Labor LawPrimary caregiver leavepregnancy discriminationequality theoryThe United States and Australia are unusual in their approach to providing paid time off to new parents. Virtually every other country in the ...
Another study using a birth cohort of women in Australia found that women who participated in paid maternity leave had decreased odds of experiencing IPV 12-months postpartum (Gartland, Hemphill, Hegarty, & Brown, 2011). A robust conceptual explanation for how PFL may be linked to these ...
Hanel (2013) studies the effect of 2–18 weeks of new benefits in Australia and finds that while in the very short-run maternal return to work declines, it increases in months 6–12. Baum and Ruhm (2016) investigate the introduction of paid parental leave in California and find that ...
parental leaveAustraliaThe introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the impacts of publicly funded paid leave on mothers in the first year postpartum. The almost universal coverage of the scheme, coupled with detailed survey data ...
A Paid Parental Leave Scheme For Australia.Cray, Hedy