Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236293 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14262
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We find that PFL leads to an improvement in employers' rating of their ease of handling long employee absences, concentrated in the first policy year and among firms with 50–99 employees. We also find an increase in employee leave-taking in the second policy year, driven by smaller firms.
Subjects: 
paid family leave
employers
worker absences
JEL: 
J21
J23
J32
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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