The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers: Evidence from New York

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14262

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Labor Demand ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
• Subject: paid family leave ; employers ; worker absences

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bartel, Ann P. ; Rossin-Slater, Maya ; Ruhm, Christopher J. ; Slopen, Meredith ; Waldfogel, Jane
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/236293
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET