If by “benefits” you mean healthcare there’s no need to offer it: one indication that a company is thinking in foreign is that it offers private medical insurance. Vacation, even illegal jobs offer it. Stuff like maternity leave, what happens is that if you’re working under the table or in a short-term contract you’re likely to lose the job.
A lot of the things that Americans call “benefits” are “legal requirements” here.
We’re already hypereducated. We’re the guys programming the robots… (seriously, it’s one of the jobs in which we have lots of people; very strong in STEM in general).
And the US by same measures has done little or nothing but till recently at least its native birth rate was higher than France’s.
And that’s without considering cost effectiveness, just not just whether more welfare state benefits will raise birth rates at all. Of course generous welfare state/high tax systems don’t necessarily have raising the birth rate as their purpose, but are viewed by some as fully justified without that. Others disagree, but it’s a different debate.
In the same vein, I don’t believe there is a single easy answer to the correct extent and nature of the welfare state. But those pro- and con- who are reasonable should be able to agree that if you ask people “would you like ‘free’ X” they’ll tend to say “yes”. And if it’s ‘free’ subsidies for bigger families it stands to reason there would be some effect. But women (or men, it is a joint burden in most cases still, economically speaking) really saying it’s a lot more likely they’d have a big family with more welfare state benefits aimed at that, consider me skeptical. And it’s not actually ‘free’, somebody must pay.
I’m unattached but I don’t think the state would be the best matchmaker, so if they:
Would pay for high quality sperm and were willing to do genetic testing on embryos to ensure I’d carry healthy baby boys (being male is not a guarantee against breast cancer but I only have one male relative who go it vs so many female ones), and would pay my annual salary so I could devote full time care to said babies until the youngest was two years old or so, I’d gladly sign up to spend the next five years making babies for the state.