Název: Sick pay and absence from work: evidence from flu exposure
Autoři: Grossmann, Jakub
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2021
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 690
Abstrakt: The system of sick-pay is critical for balancing the economic and health costs of infectious diseases. Surprisingly, most research on sick-pay reforms does not rely on variation in worker exposure to diseases when investigating absences from work. This paper studies the effects on absences from work of changes in health-insurance coverage of the first three days of sickness. We explore geographic variation in the prevalence of infectious diseases, primarily the seasonal flu, to provide variation in the need for sickness insurance. Estimates based on the Czech Structure of Earnings Survey imply that when sickness insurance is not available, total hours of work missed are not affected, but employees rely on paid and unpaid leave instead of sick-leave to stay home. The substitution effects are heterogenous across occupations and socio-demographic characteristics of employees, and suggest that workers do not spread infectious diseases at the workplace as a result of the absence of sickness insurance coverage in the first three days of sickness.
Klíčová slova: exposure to sickness; policy reform; sickness insurance

Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp690.pdf
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0319932

Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-438880


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