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The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Baert, Stijn - 2016

We investigate whether interventions by (i) medical doctors and (ii) occupational specialists are effective in reducing sick leave durations among self-employed workers. To this end, we exploit unique administrative data comprising all sick leave claims by self-employed workers insured with the...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

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

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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence

Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan - 2022

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,...

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A Kink that Makes You Sick : The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence

Bockerman, Petri - 2014

This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...

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Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape

Susser, Philip - 2016

This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a representative and comprehensive database on sick...

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Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave

Pichler, Stefan - 2020

A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...

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Commuting and Sickness Absence

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

We investigate the causal effect of commuting on sickness absence from work using German panel data. To address reverse causation, we use changes in commuting distance for employees who stay with the same employer and who have the same residence during the period of observation. In contrast to...

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Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

Higher replacement rates often imply higher levels of absenteeism, yet even in generous welfare economies, private sick … that the higher level of absenteeism in Norway compared to UK is related to the threshold in the Norwegian public sick pay …

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Coming to Work While Sick : An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data

Hirsch, Boris - 2015

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 workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...

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Questioning the Stereotype of the 'Malingering Bureaucrat' : Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany

Prümer, Stephanie - 2019

for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … compositions of the workforce. We show that the same observable factors play a role for absenteeism in the public and private … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …

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