TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maclean,Johanna Catherine
AU  - Pichler,Stefan
AU  - Ziebarth,Nicolas R.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 2020; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates increase coverage significantly by 13 percentage points from a baseline level of 66%. Newly covered employees take two additional sick days per year. We find little evidence that mandating sick pay crowds-out other non-mandated fringe benefits. We then develop a model of optimal sick pay provision along with a welfare analysis. Mandating sick pay likely increases welfare
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w26832
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26832
ER  -