Benefit morale and cross-country diversity in sick pay entitlements

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This paper analyzes the impact of a country's level of benefit morale on generosity of sick pay entitlements by means of a political economy model and an empirical investigation. Higher benefit morale reduces the incidence of absence. On the one hand, this makes insurance cheaper with the usual demand side reaction. On the other hand, being absent less often, the voter prefers less insurance. The former effect dominates at lower, the latter at higher levels of benefit morale. We present empirical evidence for both effects in a sample of 31 countries between 1981 and 2010.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAAEU Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 11/2012

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: sick pay insurance ; political economy ; work absence ; social norms

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Arnold, Daniel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)
• (where): Trier
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/80876
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