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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"family leave"”.
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A Critical Analysis of Family Leave Policies Across U.S. Universities
… purpose of this study is to critically examine family leave policies across universities in the United States to determine whether and to what degree they rely on traditional notions of motherhood and family. Conversations surrounding the lack of equitable and adequate family leave should be …
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Reactions to male and female employees requesting family leave for childcare and eldercare
… who take advantage of the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act may be perceived by others in the organization. Two key variables were considered: gender of the person requesting leave and the reason for the requested leave (childcare or eldercare). It was hypothesized that men …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
This study examines the effects of family leave policy on eight child health outcomes - five age specific child mortality rates (infant, perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, and child mortality rates), low birth weight, and immunization rates for measles and DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) …
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The Women's Movement and the Development of Family Leave Policies in the United States and Canada
… countries, have taken different approaches to family leave policies. These nations are both established democracies with comparable levels of economic development and federal systems of government. As liberal welfare regimes, they typically look to the market for resource distribution, rather …
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Forgetting the American Family: How the Family and Medical Leave Act is Insufficient and What Can Be Done to Improve It
This research seeks to clarify the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 and explore where the Act is deficient. In addition, federal policy is compared with states that currently have a more generous paid leave program. In the interest of the effect this issue has on American global …
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Spatial Features of Labor Markets and Links to the Housing Market
… first two papers look at how a local parental leave policy and the neighborhood in which one resides can influence women's decision to work. One paper shows that New Jersey's 2009 family leave insurance program induces women to remain employed following childbirth. The other reveals that, for …
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Understanding the experiences of working mothers in financial services toward family supportive practices
… the experiences of working mothers regarding the family supportive policies and practices offered within a financial services company in Cape Town. The financial services sector in South Africa is still regarded as male dominated. The results from 17 in-depth semi structured interviews conducted …
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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
… is the only country not offering paid parental leave. Paid leave is left at the discretion of employers and only a few states offer Paid Family Leave benefits. The FMLA was established to protect workers from losing their jobs in case they needed to care for an elderly person or for their …
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The Experience of Transitioning to the Caregiving Role for a Family Member with Alzheimer's Disease or a Related Dementia
… these individuals are being cared for at home by family caregivers who are known to suffer from more depression and burden than any other group of caregivers. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of transitioning to the role of caregiver for a …
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Essays on Paid Sick Leave in the United States
… the causal effect of access to paid sick leave on worker mobility, by exploiting variation in the implementation of local paid sick leave mandates over time in the U.S. I use May 2004 - June 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) basic monthly data, and by taking a Difference-in-Differences …
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Women with children first? Parenthood, policies, and gender gaps in three European labour markets
… divides today the careers of women and men. A family gap has emerged in labour markets: Women pay economic and career prices for motherhood, while the career progression of men marches on come fatherhood. Gender inequality in paid work persists despite institutional change aimed at mitigating …
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Essays in Labor and Development Economics
… The first chapter studies the impact of paid leave legislation on women employment. We employ California’s first-in-the-nation Paid Family Leave program to draw inference using difference-in-differences and triple differences methods. The change in the employment outcomes for women before and …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
… worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act falls far short of most industrialized nations. This dissertation examines the associations between family-friendly workplace …
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Maternity Leave Policy in U.S. Police Departments and School Districts: The impact of descriptive and social group representation in a context of gendered institutions
United States federal law regulating leaves of absence for maternity-related purposes pales in comparison to other nations' policies, an observation only recently receiving attention from political scientists. Providing an understanding of how maternity leave is handled by individual organizations …