VIDEOS - 妻友社区 /riwitw-videos/1915 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:17:20 -0400 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb Recommendations for U.S. Policymakers: Paid Family Leave /Research-Action-Report-Fall/Winter-2016/paid-family-leave /Research-Action-Report-Fall/Winter-2016/paid-family-leave Sari Pekkela Kerr, Ph.D, senior research scientist/economist, 妻友社区

U.S. Does Not Have Paid (Federal) Family Leave

Although research shows clear benefits of family leave, the U.S. remains the only developed country that does not offer paid family leave for its workers. This hampers women鈥檚 work efforts and endangers the wellbeing of children.

]]> Recommendations for U.S. Policymakers: Paid Family Leave Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:48:59 -0500 A Meaningful Measure of Pay Gap for Men and Women /2012/a-meaningful-measure-of-pay-gap-for-men-and-women867 /2012/a-meaningful-measure-of-pay-gap-for-men-and-women867 by Sari Kerr, Ph.D.
The Wall Street Journal
May 6, 2012

Ms. Hymowitz concludes that no family policies exist that have created gender equality at the workplace. As evidence, she cites gender income gap figures from Sweden and Iceland. The article, however, confuses multiple related issues in its arguments: labor force participation, part-time work, occupational segregation and gender wage gap. 

]]> A Meaningful Measure of Pay Gap for Men and Women Mon, 07 May 2012 14:06:44 -0400 Advancing the Status of Women & Girls, Families & Communities: Policy Recommendations for the Next U.S. President - Paid Family Leave /Fact-Sheets-Briefs/advancing-the-status-of-women-girls-families-communities-policy-recommendations-for-the-next-u-s-president-paid-family-leave /Fact-Sheets-Briefs/advancing-the-status-of-women-girls-families-communities-policy-recommendations-for-the-next-u-s-president-paid-family-leave

]]> Advancing the Status of Women & Girls, Families & Communities: Policy Recommendations for the Next U.S. President - Paid Family Leave Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:16:55 -0400 Career Dynamics: A Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. Firms and Households /Active-Projects/career-dynamics-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-u-s-firms-and-households /Active-Projects/career-dynamics-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-u-s-firms-and-households Career Dynamics: A Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. Firms and Households Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:17:06 -0500 Census Survey of Business Owners Project /Archived-Projects/census-sbox-project /Archived-Projects/census-sbox-project Census Survey of Business Owners Project Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:41:49 -0400 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) /Journal-Publications/cic-catalyzing-a /Journal-Publications/cic-catalyzing-a CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs like Wi-Fi and legal advice. Founder Tim Rowe refers to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together money, talent, and ideas in one place. Founded in Cambridge in 1999, CIC has since grown to become one of the largest concentrations of entrepreneurial activity in the world and has expanded to multiple locations across the Boston area. Rowe envisions taking this model to cities across the world, and CIC is in fact about to open a new branch in St. Louis, its first location outside greater Boston. He is concerned, though, because one month from opening day, CIC still has a lot of empty space and few clients signed up. Rowe and his team have to consider how to quickly bring in more clients before opening day, and, more broadly, whether the CIC idea will work outside the Boston/Cambridge area.

]]> CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:52:24 -0400 Commentary by Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D. /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2018/commentary-by-sari-pekkala-kerr-ph-d /Research-Action-Annual-Report-2018/commentary-by-sari-pekkala-kerr-ph-d Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Key Lessons from Recent Research

Immigration plays an important role in the growth of the U.S. population and economy, yet we continue to debate whether it has positive or negative impacts on native U.S. workers, and how these impacts are divided among population groups. In the last few years, it seems that the tone of this debate has become increasingly bitter and the views more divided.

]]> Commentary by Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D. Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:54:21 -0500 COVID-19 and Gender Equality: 鈥淭his is not about returning to normal鈥 /Videos-by-WCW-Scholars-and-Trainers/covid-19-and-gender-equality-this-is-not-about-returning-to-normal /Videos-by-WCW-Scholars-and-Trainers/covid-19-and-gender-equality-this-is-not-about-returning-to-normal COVID-19 and Gender Equality Panelists

October 19, 2020

Experts from WCW discussed the unique ways COVID-19 is impacting women's work-life balance, economic opportunities, and mental wellbeing during this virtual panel.

]]> COVID-19 and Gender Equality: 鈥淭his is not about returning to normal鈥 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:48:33 -0400 Did Paid Sick Leave and Family Medical Leave Ameliorate the Health and Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic? /Active-Projects/did-paid-sick-leave-and-family-medical-leave-ameliorate-the-health-and-economic-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic /Active-Projects/did-paid-sick-leave-and-family-medical-leave-ameliorate-the-health-and-economic-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic Did Paid Sick Leave and Family Medical Leave Ameliorate the Health and Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:21:48 -0500 Differences across Cohorts in Finnish Intergenerational Income Mobility /Publications-by-author/differences-across-cohorts-in-finnish-intergenerational-income-mobility /Publications-by-author/differences-across-cohorts-in-finnish-intergenerational-income-mobility Trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Finland are analyzed using panel data from 1950 through 1999 on more than 250,000 sons and daughters born between 1930 and 1970. A significant decline is estimated in the intergenerational transmission elasticity from the 1930 birth cohort until the baby boom cohorts of the early 1950s. After that we observed no increase in the extent of mobility for 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts, but rather the reverse. The result holds both for sons and daughters. A decomposition of the intergenerational transmission elasticities across cohorts shows that most of the early decline in transmission reflected a drop in the influence of parental income on the children's earnings that operated through investments in the child's schooling. This early pattern is postulated to reflect the phases of secondary educational expansion at the time. Throughout, a rise is estimated in the intergenerational transmission elasticity with age at which sons and daughters are observed. This has also been noted in prior U.S. studies and, at least in this Finnish context, this seems to result almost entirely from rising estimated returns to education with age.

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