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  • Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

April 2016

IZA DP No. 9867: Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(2): 611-659

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. Our findings do not provide much evidence that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of paid sick leave per work week, up to seven days per year. Joint tests for all treatment regions let us exclude, with 90% statistical probability, that wages decreased by more than 1% as a result of the mandates. With 92% probability, we can exclude that employment decreased by more than 1%.

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Keywords

  • synthetic control group
  • wages
  • employment
  • employer mandates
  • medical leave
  • sick leave
  • sick pay mandates
  • United States
  • Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)

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