sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior …. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced shirking, increased presenteeism, and the level of overall moral hazard when …This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in …

Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching DID, and mixed approaches. Overall … evidence that the increase in sick leave improved employee health, a finding that supports a shirking explanation. Finally, we …

Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic … analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between … positively related to presenteeism. Better dismissal protection, captured by higher tenure, is associated with slightly fewer …

In October 1999 the unemployment rate of people with severe disabilities in Germany was more than double that of the …