We evaluate the impact of paid sick leave (PSL) mandates on access to PSL and work absences for private sector workers in the U.S. By exploiting geographic and temporal variation in PSL mandate enactment, we compare changes in outcomes for workers in counties affected by a PSL mandate to changes...

Previous attempts to analyse international differences in patterns of worker absenteeism have not been convincing because of the difficulty in obtaining internationally comparable data. In this paper, we apply the technique described by Barmby, Ercolani and Treble(1999) to data on full-time...

This paper analyzes the relationship between unionization and sickness absence in Norway using register data covering the entire population employed in the private sector 2003-2007. A few previous studies have shown much higher sickness absence among unionized than non-unionized employees in...

The article considers the procedure of sick leave accounting, presents a general methodology for sick leave accounting. On practical example, non-standard cases were considered and analyzed; namely, the employee fell ill on the first working day; less than 12 calendar months worked; insurance...

We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...