TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Maclean, J. Catherine
AU  - Pichler, Stefan
AU  - Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
        TI  - Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
        PY  - 2020/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13132
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13132
        AB  - 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. For a range of plausible parameter values, mandating sick pay increases welfare.
        KW  - labor costs
KW  - unintended consequences
KW  - moral hazard
KW  - fringe benefits
KW  - employer mandates
KW  - medical leave
KW  - sick leave
KW  - sick pay mandates
KW  - National Compensation Survey (NCS)
KW  - welfare effects
KW  - optimal social insurance
KW  - Baily-Chetty
        ER  -