Parental leaveUSAPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to synthesize findings on the effects of existing paid parental leave programs on infant mortality rates (IMR) in the USA as an attempt to aid in efforts for the development of a national paid parental leave policy.Design/methodology/approach...
Between live births and adoptions, in the United States alone 10,000 children join a family on an average day. Parental leave is an important consideration for employees and employers alike. A Society for Human Resource Management survey found that most employers consider paid leave important to ...
Among the advanced industrialized countries, Canada’s one-year leave ranks among the most generous policies in its duration, but among the least generous in its benefit levels. Nonetheless, leave provided in Canada still outstrips that in the United States, where only brief, unpaid leaves are ...
The United States is the only member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which does not have mandatorypaid, parental leave.FMLAor the Family and Medical Leave Act, grants up to twelve weeks off unpaid for medical emergencies and childbirth. However, FMLA only applies toemp...
of affairs for family leave in the United States. Nine states and the District of Columbia mandate some degree of paid parental leave, butfederal laws only guarantee new parents six weeks of unpaid time off.Not all workers qualify, and we were curious: what doesteacherparental leave look like...
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 ...
By contrast, leave entitlements in the United States are limited and unpaid. However, child development is just one (albeit, very important) concern and we are largely ignorant about the tradeoffs that the various policies may entail. For instance, rights to many months of ...
Parental leave. The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference? Maternity leave, early maternal employment and child health and development in the US ...
Despite evidence of the benefits of paid parental leave policies on maternal and child health, the United States remains the only high-income country without guaranteed paid parental leave. Since California implemented the first paid parental leave program in 2004, seven additional states have initiated...
Parental leave in the United States has been a hot issue in the past year. During his State of the Union address in January, President Obama lamented that the U.S. is the only advanced country in the world that doesn't guarantee paid maternity leave. Federal law does guarantee new pare...