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Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects / Johanna Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maclean, Johanna Catherine.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26832.
- NBER working paper series no. w26832
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Mandated Sick Pay
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates increase coverage significantly by 18 percentage points from a baseline level of 66%in the first two years. Newly covered employees take two additional sick days per year. We find little evidence that mandating sick pay crowds-out non-mandated fringe benefits. Finally, we develop a model of optimal sick pay provision and illustrate the trade-offs when assessing welfare.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2020.
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