TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bensnes, Simon
AU  - Hernaes, Øystein
AU  - King, Max-Emil M.
        TI  - No Payoff from Time Off? Mandated Paid Vacation and Late-Career Employment
        PY  - 2025/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18121
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18121
        AB  - This study examines the impact of receiving one additional week of paid vacation on labor market attachment among Norwegian workers aged 60+. Employing a triple-differences estimation strategy, we exploit age-based eligibility thresholds before and after a 2009 reform to identify causal effects. Our findings indicate that the extra leave has negligible effects on both employment, sickness absence and disability benefit receipt in the year workers first receive it. If anything, some workers use the additional vacation time to increase earnings from secondary employers. The results imply that policymakers should consider alternative measures to mandated leave to support an aging workforce.
        KW  - triple-differences
KW  - labor supply
KW  - older workers
KW  - paid vacation
KW  - public policy
        ER  -