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Profiling the US sick leave landscape
Susser, Philip; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452143
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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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If sick-leave becomes more costly, will I go back to work? : could it be too soon?
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2020
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233327
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If sick-leave becomes more costly, will i go back to work? : could it be too soon?
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2020
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239176
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Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2022
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806663
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Evidence on maternal health from two large Canadian parental leave expansions : when is enough too much?
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; … - 2016 - Revised version
- delivery, we estimate the causal effects of two major distinct parental leave reforms on maternal health outcomes, over a … period of 5 years postpartum. The health outcomes are objective measures based on all types of medical services provided by … assessment of short-run and long-run effects of maternity leave on mothers? health. The empirical approach uses a strict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152917
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Urban Air Pollution and Sick Leaves : Evidence from Social Security Data
Holub, Felix - 2020
We estimate the causal impact of air pollution on the incidence of sick leaves in a representative panel of employees affiliated to the Spanish social security system. Using over 100 million worker-by-week observations from the period 2005-2014, we estimate the relationship between the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837393