Key issues in paid parental leave policy

Paid parental leave and family wellbeing in the sustainable development era

Background The Sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to have a significant impact on maternal and child health through their commitments both to directly addressing health services and to improving factors that form the foundation of social determinants of health. To achieve change at scale, national laws and policies have a critical role to play in implementing the SDGs' comm...

Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women’s Labor-Force Attachment?

Reconciling Work and Family Life: The Effect of the French Paid Parental Leave

In France, having more than two children has a causal negative impact on mothers’ labour supply. The question addressed in this paper is whether the paid parental leave alter this effect. To address this issue, we focus on a reform that modified the conditions in which labour decisions are taken. In July 1994, the Allocation parentale d’éducation was extended to parents of two children (among w...

The market for paid sick leave.

In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping decisions are untainted by private economic interests? Based on administrative registers from Norway...

Psychiatric rehabilitation: key issues and future policy.

Medical practitioners have long recognized the critical importance of treating the consequences of physical illness as well as the illness itself. This concept did not take hold in the mental health arena until decades later, when the deinstitutionalization movement gained momentum, and increased numbers of persons with severe psychiatric disabilities changed residence from the back ward to the...