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Firms' Sickness Costs and Workers' Sickness Absences

Böheim, René - 2014

In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

adjustments ('moral hazard') into contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior and derives testable conditions …

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Declining Desire to Work and Downward Trends in Unemployment and Participation

Barnichon, Regis - 2015

, which was particularly strong in the second half of the 90s, is a major aspect of the downward trends in unemployment and … and the unemployment rate, because a nonparticipant who wants to work has (i) a higher probability of entering the labor … force (compared to other nonparticipants), and (ii) a higher probability of joining unemployment conditional on entering the …

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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Fishback, Price - 2010

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 Illnesses on Workers

Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan - 2022

We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...

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Sources of Displaced Workers’ Long-Term Earnings Losses

Lachowska, Marta - 2018

We estimate the magnitudes of reduced earnings, work hours, and wage rates of workers displaced during the Great Recession using linked employer-employee panel data from Washington State. Displaced workers' earnings losses occurred mainly because hourly wage rates dropped at the time of...

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Social Security Rules and Marginal Tax Rates

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2011

The social security payroll tax has become the largest tax paid by the majority of American households. Although, the statutory marginal social security tax rate is the same for all those with wage and salary income up to the maximum level, the complex rules linking social security taxes and...

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Reconsidering the Work Disincentive Effects of Social Security

Blinder, Alan S.; Gordon, Roger H.; Wise, Donald E. - 2021

This paper shows that, contrary to commonly held views, the provisions of the social security law actually provide strong work incentives for older men. The reason is that, for most workers, higher current earnings lead to higher future social security benefits. These incentives have been...

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Social Security and Retirement in Spain

Boldrin, Michele; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Peracchi, Franco - 2021

We describe the historical evolution of the Spanish Social Security system and its current organization. Our attention concentrates on the main public pension scheme for private employees in the manufacturing and service sector (RGSS) which covers by far the largest majority of Spanish workers....

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Social Security and Labor Supply Incentives

Gordon, Roger H. - 2021

Many provisions of the Social Security Program distort an individual's labor supply incentives. In particular, the payroll tax, the earnings test, the offsetting actuarial adjustment, and the dependence of the size of future benefits on the level of current earnings all affect the net return to...

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