Labor market effects of US sick pay mandates

S Pichler, NR Ziebarth - Journal of Human Resources, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of nine city-and four
state-level US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the …

Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects

JC Maclean, S Pichler, NR Ziebarth - 2020 - nber.org
This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States.
Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate …

Paid sick leave and absenteeism: The first evidence from the US

T Ahn, A Yelowitz - Available at SSRN 2740366, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Using a balanced sample of workers from the NHIS, we estimate of the impact of paid sick
leave (PSL) insurance on absenteeism in the United States. PSL increases absenteeism by …

Can paid sick leave mandates reduce leave-taking?

J Stearns, C White - Labour Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Since 2006, several cities and states have implemented paid sick leave mandates. We
examine the effects of paid sick leave mandates in Washington, DC (2008) and Connecticut …

A natural experiment on sick pay cuts, sickness absence, and labor costs

NR Ziebarth, M Karlsson - Journal of Public Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on sickness
absence behavior and labor costs. German federal law reduced the legal obligation of …

The short-run impacts of Connecticut's paid sick leave legislation

T Ahn, A Yelowitz - Applied Economics Letters, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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The effects of expanding the generosity of the statutory sickness insurance system

NR Ziebarth, M Karlsson - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article evaluates an expansion of employer‐mandated sick leave from 80% to 100% of
forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference‐in …

The effect of paid sick leave mandates on coverage, work absences, and presenteeism

K Callison, MF Pesko - Journal of Human Resources, 2022 - jhr.uwpress.org
We evaluate the impact of paid sick leave (PSL) mandates on PSL coverage, work
absences, and presenteeism (that is, attending work while sick) for private-sector workers in …

Sickness absence, sick leave pay, and pay schemes

H Dale‐Olsen - Labour, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Utilizing N orwegian linked register and survey data, while exploiting a discontinuity in
public sick pay legislation, I show that the public sick pay compensation level causally …

Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work

O Marie, J Vall Castelló - Journal of Labor Economics, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We investigate the impact on work absences of a large reduction in paid sick leave benefits
in Spain. Our results highlight substantial decreases in frequency (number of spells) mostly …