Sick pay provision in experimental labor markets
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly a...
متن کاملCompensating differentials in experimental labor markets
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting. We study both the wage differentia...
متن کاملThe Male-Female Pay Gap Driven by Coupling between Labor Markets and Mating Markets
Synopsis: Males often get paid more than females for the same work. This male-female pay gap has been observed throughout the world over many years. The most commonly cited explanations focus on gender oppression and workplace discrimination. We agree that discrimination contributes significantly to the pay gap; however, other factors may play important roles in how the sexes compete in the lab...
متن کاملStatistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis
This article reports results from controlled laboratory experiments designed to study secondmoment (that is, risk-based) statistical discrimination in a labor market setting. Since decision makers may not view risk in the same way as economists or statisticians (that is, risk = variance of distribution), we also examine alternative measures of risk: the support of the distribution and the proba...
متن کاملA Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs
We estimate the overall reform effects of a reduction in sick pay levels on sickness absence behavior, labor costs, and the creation of new jobs. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wage pay up to six weeks per sickness episode. From October 1996 onwards, statutory sick pay was decreased to 80 percent of foregone gross wages. This meas...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0014-2921
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2011.08.002