About the Bay Area Council Economic Institute Since 1990, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute has been the leading think tank focused on the economic and policy issues facing the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most dynamic regions in the United States and the world’s leading center for technology and innovation. [...] Our work focused on PFL program utilization and how ■ The observed increase in employment of new it has changed over time, the impact of PFL on labor mothers may be due to the PFL program itself, as force participation, and the impact of PFL on firms, well as other factors such as more family-friendly particularly firm labor costs and exit rates. [...] Funded by worker payroll findings on the effect of Paid Family Leave to date, deductions, PFL currently provides up to six weeks of to inform what the possible effects of expanding the paid leave for workers to bond with a new child or to PFL program would be. [...] The Governor’s long-term goal is ■ Section III reviews the literature on the effect of PFL to expand access to the PFL program and provide six programs on workers and employers months of bonding for every new child.2 ■ Section IV identifies the research objectives of this Despite PFL’s successes, a Governor’s PFL Task Force report required by SB 83 reports that only half of eligible mothers and on. [...] We particular industry or firm size and compared to the believe a likely reason for this observed change is that overall exit rate for the industry or firm size, in order to as a firm becomes smaller, the likelihood of the worker interpret the magnitude of the estimates.
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