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| Subject: Supposedly, addressing libertarian concerns about paid leave - NO SALE! Fri May 03, 2019 9:52 pm | |
| In a recent Carpe Diem blog post, my colleague Mark Perry highlights several articles that take the position that “government-coerced paid leave” is a bad idea. For instance, Veronique de Rugy worries about the consequences for workers, especially women, if we have a federal paid leave policy. She worries that by adopting the policies of other OECD economies, we will get a bigger gender pay gap, and hurt the chances for women to rise to leadership positions. Donald Bodreaux in an “Open Letter to Aparna Mathur” argues that there is no reason to suspect that paid leave is under-provided, and that efficient labor markets guarantee an optimal level of paid leave. Others, like Dan Mitchell, argue that paid leave is problematic because it would grow the size of government, and that federal paid leave is anti-market. So is there an economic case for paid parental leave? As I have argued several times, and as our AEI-Brookings Working group reports from 2017 and 2018 highlight, there most certainly is.
http://www.aei.org/publication/addressing-libertarian-concerns-about-paid-leave/
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