A5088854212- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health and Medical Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Risk Perception and Management
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- German Economic Analysis & Policies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
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- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
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University of Mannheim
2022-2025
Cornell University
2015-2024
Centre for European Economic Research
2018-2024
New York State University College of Human Ecology
2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2017-2023
University of Duisburg-Essen
2020-2023
Syracuse University
2023
University of Notre Dame
2022
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2022
ETH Zurich
2015-2021
Although end-of-life medical spending is often viewed as a major component of aggregate expenditure, accurate measures this type are scarce. We used detailed health care data for the period 2009–11 from Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Taiwan, United States, and Canadian province Quebec to measure composition magnitude in three years before death. In all nine countries, at end life was high relative other ages. Spending during last twelve months made up modest share...
SUMMARY This article evaluates an expansion of employer‐mandated sick leave from 80% to 100% forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference‐in‐difference (DID), matching DID mixed approaches. Overall workplace absences increased by at least 10% or 1 day per worker year. show that taking partial compliance into account increases coefficient estimates. Further, heterogeneity response behavior was great importance. There is no evidence the increase improved employee...
This analysis examines whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency sick leave provision of bipartisan Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced spread virus. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compared changes in newly reported COVID-19 cases states where workers gained right to take paid (treatment group) versus already had access (control before FFCRA. We adjusted for differences testing, day-of-the-week reporting, structural state differences,...
Abstract A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and empirical identification welfare‐relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza‐like‐illness (ILI) transmission rates as well pneumonia influenza (P&I) mortality in United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at state‐week level 2010 2018 along with difference‐in‐differences methods,...
Hendrik Schmitz and Nicolas R. Ziebarth is a professor of statistics empirical economics at the University Paderborn also affiliated with CINCH RWI. an Assistant Professor Cornell in Department Policy Analysis Management (PAM) IZA DIW.
Objective To profile the sick leave landscape in United States. Data Sources The 2011 Leave Supplement of American Time Use Survey. Study Design Bivariate and multivariate analyses to identify (i) employees without pay coverage (ii) who attend work sick. Principal Findings Sixty‐five percent full‐time have coverage. Coverage rates are below 20 for with hourly wages $10, part‐time employees, hospitality leisure industry. Conclusion Each week, up 3 million U.S. go Females, low‐income earners,...
Abstract Using the National Compensation Survey from 2009 to 2022 and difference-in-differences methods, we find that state-level sick pay mandates are effective in broadening access for U.S. workers. Increases coverage reach 30ppt a 63% baseline five years post-mandate. Mandates have more bite jobs with low pre-mandate coverage. Further, reduce inequality paid leave substantially, both across within firms. Covid-19 reinforced existing positive trends take-up. Sick use increases linearly,...
This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in United States. The States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid for all employees. We first provide a categorization different concepts such as leave, or temporary disability insurance, both domestic an international context. Then we use data from National Compensation Survey sketch employee coverage rates by type job. also document changes since 2010, focusing on...
Journal Article Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes Get access Nicolas R. Ziebarth DIW Berlin, SOEP Group and TU Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 120, Issue 545, 1 June 2010, Pages 816–844, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02370.x Published: 01 2010 history Received: 24 February 2009 Accepted: 26 October