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Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
This paper reviews the recent labor-market performance of 21 rich countries, with a focus on Denmark and Germany …. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in … recent years. Germany, however, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007, despite earlier labor …
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Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality
Ray, Rebecca; Schmitt, John; Gornick, Janet C. - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008
This report examines the parental leave policies in 21 high-income nations and identifies five "best practices" for parental leave policies. The study shows that the U.S. has the least generous leave policies of the 21 countries examined in the report. The states exhibiting the five best...
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Expanding Federal Family and Medical Leave Coverage: Who Benefits from Changes in Eligibility Requirements?
Jorgensen, Helene; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
The Family and Medical Leave Act provides job-protected, unpaid leave to employees in firms with 50 or more employees. However, coverage and eligibility restrictions result in 49.3 million employees (44.1 percent) in the private sector being ineligible for leave in 2012. This paper looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741290
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Expanding Family and Medical Leave to Small Firms
Jorgensen, Helene; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) gives eligible employees the right to take job-protected, unpaid leave to bond with a new child, care for a family member or military service member, or for one’s own serious illness for up to 12 weeks in a year. About 60 million private sector...
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The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
Schmitt, John; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in each of the three cities, surrounding suburbs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921764
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The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy
Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
Most of the discussion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused on the extent to which it has extended health insurance coverage to the formerly uninsured. This is certainly an important aspect of the law. However by allowing people to buy insurance through the exchanges and extending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096689
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Business As Usual: New Jersey Employers’ Experiences with Family Leave Insurance
Lerner, Sharon; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
This study examines New Jersey employers’ experiences with employees who need time off to care for a seriously ill child or family member or to bond with a new baby since 2009, when the state began offering paid family leave through the statewide Family Leave Insurance (FLI) program. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786629
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Documenting the Need for a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program: Evidence from the 2012 FMLA Survey
Jorgensen, Helene; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
year. Our analysis of the Department of Labor’s 2012 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Survey found that 12.6 percent of …
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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727348
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State Union Membership, 2012
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
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