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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386819
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340177
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : a method to test for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487529
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A natural experiment on sick pay cuts, sickness absence, and labor costs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness episode to 80 percent. This measure increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636409
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Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard : evidence from a natural experiment
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
percent. We show theoretically that the net reform effects on long-term absenteeism can be disentangled into a direct and an … direct effect on the incidence and duration of long-term absenteeism by difference-in-differences. Our findings suggest that …, on population average, the reforms have not affected long-term absenteeism significantly, which is in accordance with our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832840
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A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness episode to 80 percent. This measure increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199815
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The incentive effects of sickness benefit for the unemployed - analysis of a reduction in potential benefit duration
Csillag, Márton; Márk, Lili - 2023
In Hungary, employees could claim sickness insurance benefit within 3 days of job-loss, which would enable them to extend their benefit duration by up to 90 days. The maximum number of days of this 'passive sickness benefit' was halved in 2007. We first investigate whether claiming passive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454732
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Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard : evidence from a natural experiment
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
percent. We show theoretically that the net reform effects on long-term absenteeism can be disentangled into a direct and an … direct effect on the incidence and duration of long-term absenteeism by difference-in-differences. Our findings suggest that …, on population average, the reforms have not affected long-term absenteeism significantly, which is in accordance with our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634717
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Reprint of: the pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Journal of public economics 171 (2019), pp. 86-104
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160424