Arbeitspapier
Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?
Higher replacement rates often imply higher levels of absenteeism, yet even in generous welfare economies, private sick pay is provided in addition to the public sick pay. Why? Using comparative workplace data for the UK and Norway we show that the higher level of absenteeism in Norway compared to UK is related to the threshold in the Norwegian public sick pay legislation. This threshold's importance is confirmed in a Regression Kinked Design (RKD) analysis on the Norwegian micro-data. Private sick pay is provided as an employer-provided non-wage benefit and when training costs are high.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11222
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Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
- Subject
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absenteeism
public sick pay
private sick pay
comparative
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bryson, Alex
Dale-Olsen, Harald
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bryson, Alex
- Dale-Olsen, Harald
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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