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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by ajuc on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:35AM (#29227853)
According to [1] USA is 86th in the world according to unemployment. Most of the countries with lower unemployment than USA have paid paternity leave. Please stop cherry-picking, you're not fooling anyone. 120 counties in the world have paid maternity leave, often about a year or more of it. That includes countries with higher standards of living than USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemploym...

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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by bko on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:58AM (#29228125)
Everything is on the margin.

All else being equal, providing a large benefit that's most likely to be exercised by one type of worker will discourage employers from hiring that type of worker.

This shouldn't be complicated or controversial. It's basic incentives.

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Re:Without parental leave I might be dead by germinalphrase on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:14AM (#29229070)
Perhaps you are artificially limiting the scope of what incentives/disincentives exist with regard to parental leave such that your ideological model is maintained. There certainly seems to be a significant amount of evidence to suggest your fears are unfounded.
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