Sick pay and absence from work: evidence from flu exposure

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F24%3A00604654" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/24:00604654 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11640/24:00586661

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12404" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12404</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12404" target="_blank" >10.1111/ecot.12404</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Sick pay and absence from work: evidence from flu exposure

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Sick pay systems are critical in balancing the economic and health costs of infectious diseases, especially in workplaces, where uncontrolled disease spread can lead to significant economic losses. Surprisingly, most research on sick-pay reforms does not rely on variation in worker exposure to disease when investigating absences from work. This paper studies the effects of exposure to influenza outbreaks on absences from work when a nation-wide policy canceled health-insurance coverage for the first 3 days of illness. We explore geographic variation in the prevalence of infectious diseases, primarily the seasonal flu, to identify corresponding variations in the need for sickness insurance. Estimates based on the Czech Structure of Earnings Survey imply that when sickness insurance was canceled for the first 3 days of an illness, the total hours of work missed were not affected, but employees relied on paid and unpaid leave instead of sick-leave to stay home. The substitution effects are heterogeneous across occupations and socio-demographic characteristics of employees, and suggest that workers did not increase the spread of infectious illness in workplaces due to a lack of insurance coverage for the first 3 days of an illness.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Sick pay and absence from work: evidence from flu exposure

Popis výsledku anglicky

Sick pay systems are critical in balancing the economic and health costs of infectious diseases, especially in workplaces, where uncontrolled disease spread can lead to significant economic losses. Surprisingly, most research on sick-pay reforms does not rely on variation in worker exposure to disease when investigating absences from work. This paper studies the effects of exposure to influenza outbreaks on absences from work when a nation-wide policy canceled health-insurance coverage for the first 3 days of illness. We explore geographic variation in the prevalence of infectious diseases, primarily the seasonal flu, to identify corresponding variations in the need for sickness insurance. Estimates based on the Czech Structure of Earnings Survey imply that when sickness insurance was canceled for the first 3 days of an illness, the total hours of work missed were not affected, but employees relied on paid and unpaid leave instead of sick-leave to stay home. The substitution effects are heterogeneous across occupations and socio-demographic characteristics of employees, and suggest that workers did not increase the spread of infectious illness in workplaces due to a lack of insurance coverage for the first 3 days of an illness.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: Národní institut pro výzkum socioekonomických dopadů nemocí a systémových rizik</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change

ISSN

2577-6975

e-ISSN

2577-6983

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

845-875

Kód UT WoS článku

001138423300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85181692981