| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22530 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22530 |
| The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior | |
| Stefan Pichler; Nicolas R. Ziebarth | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-08-22 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper provides an analytical framework and uses data from the US and Germany to test for the existence of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. The first part exploits high-frequency Google Flu data and the staggered implementation of U.S. sick leave reforms to show in a reduced-from framework that population-level influenza-like disease rates decrease after employees gain access to paid sick leave. Next, a simple theoretical framework provides evidence on the underlying behavioral mechanisms. The model theoretically decomposes overall behavioral labor supply adjustments ('moral hazard') into contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior and derives testable conditions. The last part illustrates how to implement the model exploiting German sick pay reforms and administrative industry-level data on certified sick leave by diagnoses. It finds that the labor supply elasticity for contagious diseases is significantly smaller than for noncontagious diseases. Under the identifying assumptions of the model, in addition to the evidence from the U.S., this finding provides indirect evidence for the existence of contagious presenteeism. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22530 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580204 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stefan Pichler,Nicolas R. Ziebarth. The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior. 2016. |
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| w22530.pdf（870KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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