Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/158754 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 44 [Issue:] 1/2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 205-213
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract (Translated): 
This paper illustrates the evaluation of changes in social policy regulations with respect to two reforms that strengthened the rights of either employers or employees. Causal effects of the reform are based on control group designs (difference-in-differences estimates). The results show that interventions of the state in the labor market also have negative effects - besides the desired supportive/distributional effects for sick people in one case and for parents in the other. The regulation that the employer has to pay an absent sick worker 100 instead of 80 percent of the wage increases the average days of absence from work from about 6 to 8 days (estimates vary by specification, some estimates even exhibit higher effects), without significantly negatively affecting subjective health indicators. The regulation that demands employers to guarantee comparable employment to a parent even after 3 years of absence reduces employer-arranged training for young women.
Subjects: 
Sozialpolitik - Reform
Reformpolitik - Auswirkungen
Beschäftigungseffekte
Erziehungsurlaub
Lohnfortzahlung
Krankenstand
Arbeitnehmer
Tarifvertrag
Fehlzeiten
junge Erwachsene
Frauen
betriebliche Weiterbildung
Weiterbildungsbeteiligung
Bildungschancen
JEL: 
I18
J16
J24
J83
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Document Type: 
Article

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