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The Cost to Ocean County of Providing Pension Benefits to Employee's Domestic Partners
Get PDFAs a result of the passage of the Domestic Partnership Act of 2004, counties in New Jersey have the option of extending spousal pension benefits to domestic partners of county employees, just as the state does. One common question related to these benefits concerns their cost to the county, in this case to Ocean County. Based on the current structure of the pension plans that Ocean County employees belong to, and based on data from the State, I estimate that the cost to the county would be less than $70,000 per year. Below I outline the details of how I arrived at this calculation
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The Impact of Expanding FMLA Rights to Care for Children of Same-Sex Partners
Get PDFThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has expanded its scope of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to allow employees to be allowed unpaid leave to care for the children of unmarried same-sex partners, but does not extend this unpaid leave to care for ill unmarried same-sex partners. This research brief uses data sources to estimate the number of families currently affected by the new ruling and those that would be affected if the FMLA expanded these rights to unmarried same-sex partners
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Testimony: HR 2015, The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007
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The Financial Impact of Domestic Partner Benefits in New Hampshire
Get PDFWhat would be the financial implications of offering domestic partner benefits to state employees 1 in New Hampshire? Recent scholarly research and information from government agencies lead to the following findings:1. Health insurance benefits are an important form of compensation, and employers are important sources of health care coverage.2. Employers are increasingly offering the same health care benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of their employees as are offered to spouses of employees.3. Health care costs for the State and local employers would increase by a small amount.4. Some of the added cost to the State will be offset by lower spending on Medicaid and uncompensated health care, and by lower training and recruitment costs
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Separate and Not Equal: Bi-National Same–Sex Couples
Get PDFIn an article published recently in Signs, Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett discusses her research on bi-national same-sex couples living in the Netherlands. She finds that many of these couples face difficult limitations in choosing where to live. Instead of living where they would prefer, or following the best job opportunities, they often have no choice about where to reside in order to avoid separation. As a result, the non-citizen members of these Dutch couples sometimes had to take lower paying jobs and bear the emotional costs of living far from their birth families. Couples also shared the symbolic harm they experienced in visiting the United States. The fact that their marriages are not recognized is driven home as they are required to fill out different forms, wait in different lines, and answer different questions to enter the U.S. separately instead of together
The Economic Cost of Stigma and the Exclusion of LGBT People : A Case Study of India
No full textHuman rights and equality for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are usually
considered through a social, cultural, or ethical lens, but
equality and inclusion of LGBT people are also economic
development issues. This report develops a model to estimate
the economic cost of stigma; negative attitudes toward LGBT
people and the exclusion of LGBT people in social
institutions such as education, employment, families, and
health care. The model is applied to a case study of India.
Three major findings emerge from this report. First, there
is clear evidence of stigma and exclusion exists for LGBT
people in India. Data on public opinion from 2006 shows that
41 percent of Indians would not want a homosexual neighbor,
and 64 percent believe that homosexuality is never
justified. Negative attitudes have diminished over time,
however. Second, the effects of stigma and exclusion are
potentially costly to economies. A conceptual model links
exclusion of LGBT people and economic development through
(1) lower productivity and lower output as a result of
employment discrimination and constraints on labor supply;
(2) inefficient investment in human capital because of lower
returns to education and discrimination in educational
settings; (3) lost output as a result of health disparities
that are linked to exclusion; and (4) social and health
services required to address the effects of exclusion that
might be better spent elsewhere. Third and lastly, in India,
existing research does not allow for a precise estimate of
the cost of LGBT exclusion, but the cost could be
substantial. The loss of labor productivity and output
because of employment discrimination and the loss of life
years due to early death or disability will reduce the
economic output of the Indian economy. With better research
on the lived experiences of LGBT people, researchers could
use existing analytical tools to estimate the total cost of
LGBT exclusion
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Positive Effects on the State of Alaska from Domestic Partner Benefits
Get PDFIncluding employees’ domestic partners in public employers’ health care and other benefits will have positive effects on state and local government employers in Alaska. The possibility of cost increases is usually high on the list of concerns, although a great deal of evidence suggests that cost increases will be small (Ash and Badgett, 2005; Badgett, 2000; Badgett, 2001; Badgett and Sears, 2005; Kohn 1999; International Society of Certified Employee Benefits Specialists, 1995). Just as important are the benefits that the State of Alaska will see if public employees’ partners are eligible for benefits
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Economic Benefits from Same-Sex Weddings in New Jersey
Get PDFThis study estimates the potential economic impact of samesex weddings on the State of New Jersey and concludes that the gain would be substantial. If New Jersey were to give same-sex couples the right to marry, that is marriage itself and not civil unions, the State would likely experience a surge in spending on weddings by same-sex couples who currently live in New Jersey, as well as an increase in wedding and tourist spending by same-sex couples from other states. The analysis outlined in detail below predicts that sales by New Jersey’s wedding and tourism-related businesses would rise by 7.2 million per year
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Unequal Taxes on Equal Benefits: The Taxation of Domestic Partner Benefits
Get PDFIn this report, we will detail how employees with partners now pay on average 178 million per year to additional taxes. U.S. employers also pay a total of $57 million per year in additional payroll taxes because of this unequal tax treatment. Because the number of unmarried couples is growing, over time this unfair treatment will affect millions of families
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