IZA DP No. 2973 Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited Alexander K. Koch Julia Nafziger DISCUSSION P APER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor August 2007 Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle...

This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...