absences. Large firms, by contrast, were refunded only 70% of the wages paid to sick blue-collar workers. Using a difference …Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create …

Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment … spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires both unemployment benefits and wage insurance …

Efforts to insure long-tenured displacement workers against earnings losses from unemployment spells and lower wages on …

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

job levels and human capital as wage determinants, the dispersion of wages within job levels, the importance of tenure in … levels and a tight relationship between human capital variables and wages. …

sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not … only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health. To inform our empirical analysis we propose a simple model …, where workers' absence decision is taken conditional on the sharing rule, health, and a dismissal probability. Our empirical …