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Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows Versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave
Author(s) -
Mark Curtis E.,
Hirsch Barry T.,
Schroeder Mary C.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.1002/soej.12150
Subject(s) - earnings , workforce , quarter (canadian coin) , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , business , finance , economic growth , geography , archaeology
Employer mandates typically have small effects on wages and employment. Such effects should be most evident using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) provides county by quarter by demographic group data on the number and earnings of new hires, separations, and recalls (extended leaves). The QWI is used to examine the effects of California's 2004 paid family leave (CPFL) program, comparing outcomes for young women in California to those for other workers within and outside of California. CPFL had little effect on earnings for young women, but increased separations, hiring, and worker mobility.

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