f Sickness insurance guarantees employees the right to take leave from work when they are sick, but is vulnerable to excessive use because monitoring of recipients' health is difficult and costly. In terms of costs, it would be preferable to focus monitoring on individuals whose sickness absence...

Seit 2022 sind die krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten laut übereinstimmender Berichte und auf Basis unterschiedlicher Datenquellen stark angestiegen. Es gilt festzuhalten, dass es in Deutschland keine einheitliche und repräsentative Datenbasis gibt, die Fehlzeiten nach Krankheitsdauer akkurat und...

Background The occurrence of health shocks affects households economically in various ways. It most often leads to missed work, thus inducing a decrease in productivity and a loss of income. These effects are even more significant if the extent of absenteeism is high or if its duration is long....

Motherhood and parental leave are frequent causes of worker absences and employment interruptions, yet we know little about their effects on firms. Based on linked employer-employee data from Germany, we examine how parental leave absences affect small- and medium-sized firms. We show that they...