The main stakeholders in PPL are parents, children, employers and Government. This report outlines the costs and benefits of extended PPL for each of these groups. The concerns of New Zealand’s society and economy will be aligned with Government’s concerns. To find out about the effects of the group that most interests you, simply click the appropriate group under “I’m Interested In Effects On…”
While traditional cost-benefit analyses place numerical values on variables, this is inapplicable to infant welfare, maternal welfare, gender equality at work and at home, and family choice. Therefore, this report generates fresh insights by taking each stakeholder’s viewpoint, and demonstrating that lengthened PPL would extend each one’s qualitative wellbeing.
Academic literature, international studies, national surveys, and economic theory are used to weigh up each stakeholder’s viewpoint. To aid breadth, survey data is taken from different organisations, at different times throughout the last five years. The World Health Organisation (WHO), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are taken as international authorities.