The short-run impacts of Connecticut’s paid sick leave legislation

Ahn, Thomas; Yelowitz, Aaron

doi:10.1080/13504851.2015.1023934

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“…Estimates in columns (2) and (3), however, indicate that those gaining access to PSL work fewer hours per week and are less likely to be employed in the private sector following the adoption of a PSL mandate. The observed reduction in employment coupled with no measurable effect on labor force participation is consistent with the findings of Ahn and Yelowitz (2015). 20 Weekly hours worked fall for this group by approximately 8 percent and employment rates decline by nearly 7 percent.…”

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“…Ahn and Yelowtiz (2016) utilize data on U.S. workers who reported access to PSL and find that an exogenous health shock led to approximately one additional work absence per year for those with PSL. Finally, Ahn and Yelowitz (2015) and Pichler and Ziebarth (2016a) conduct analyses that most closely match our approach in this paper. Ahn and Yelowitz (2015) examine the effect of Connecticut's 2012 state PSL mandate on labor market outcomes including unemployment and labor force participation.…”

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“…Finally, Ahn and Yelowitz (2015) and Pichler and Ziebarth (2016a) conduct analyses that most closely match our approach in this paper. Ahn and Yelowitz (2015) examine the effect of Connecticut's 2012 state PSL mandate on labor market outcomes including unemployment and labor force participation. Results indicate that adoption of the PSL mandate was associated with a small decline in employment, but had no effect on labor force participation.…”

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The Effect of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Access to Paid Leave and Work Absences

Callison¹

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in ABSTRACTWe evaluate the impact of paid sick leave (PSL) mandates on labor market outcomes, the utilization of health care services, and health behaviors for private sector workers in the United States. By exploiting geographic and temporal variation in PSL mandate adoption, we compare changes in outcomes for workers in counties affected by a PSL mandate to changes for those in counties with no mandate. Additionally, we rely on within-county variation in the propensity to gain PSL following a mandate to estimate policy effects for workers most likely to acquire coverage. Results indicate that PSL mandates lead to increased access to PSL benefits, especially for women without a college degree. We find that PSL laws reduce average weekly hours worked and private sector employment, but appear to have no effect on job tenure or labor force participation. PSL mandates are associated with sizable reductions in emergency department utilization and increases in general practitioner visits. Finally, we present suggestive evidence that PSL mandates lead to more days binge drinking. JEL Classification Codes: I18, I12, J21, J23, J32Key Words: Paid sick leave, labor market, health care, health behaviors Acknowledgments:

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The Effect of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Access to Paid Leave and Work Absences

Callison¹

2017

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“…It suggests that a reduction in contagious presenteeism occurs when sick pay coverage increases, resulting in fewer infections and lower influenza activity. This paper is one of the first to study the introduction of sick pay mandates in the U.S. (Ahn and Yelowitz 2015;Pichler and Ziebarth 2016, are two exceptions). It is also one of the first economic papers to exploit high-frequency data from Google Flu Trends, a rich data set that assesses influenza activity on a weekly basis starting in 2003.…”

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

Pichler

Ziebarth

2016

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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. Stefan Pichler AbstractThis 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.

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“…However, none of these papers estimates labor supply effects by disease groups. In particular, this paper extends the small economic literature on presenteeism at the workplace (Aronsson et al 2000;Chatterji and Tilley 2002;Brown and Sessions 2004;Pauly et al 2008;Barmby and Larguem 2009;Johns 2010;Böckerman and Laukkanen 2010;Markussen et al 2012;Pichler 2015;Hirsch et al 2015;Ahn and Yelowitz 2015). With one exception, none of the empirical studies on presenteeism just cited identifies or intends to identify causal effects of sick leave schemes on presenteeism.…”

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

Pichler¹,

Ziebarth²

2015

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This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the test exploiting German sick pay reforms and administrative industry-level data on certified sick leave by diagnoses. The labor supply adjustment for contagious diseases is significantly smaller than for noncontagious diseases. Lastly, using Google Flu data and the staggered implementation of U.S. sick leave reforms, we show that flu rates decrease after employees gain access to paid sick leave. JEL Classification Codes: I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32

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The short-run impacts of Connecticut’s paid sick leave legislation

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

The Effect of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Access to Paid Leave and Work Absences

The Effect of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Access to Paid Leave and Work Absences

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

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

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