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 …

We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a … contracts reset at the beginning of the year, and cost-sharing limits change over the years. Using rich claims-level data from a …

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 …

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

the financial burden related to sickness absence of their workers. We use an exogenously-set threshold for the eligibility …

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort …

competitive pricing of nonexclusive financial contracts …