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Paid Sick Days Don’t Cause Unemployment

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John Schmitt
Hye Jin Rho
Alison Earle
Jody Heymann

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Critics of legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick days frequently argue that these measures will lead to job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries with the highest level of social and economic development (as measured by the Human Development Index) suggests that there is no statistically significant relationship between national unemployment rates and legally-mandated access to paid sick days and leave.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in its series CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs with number 2009-21.

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Date of creation: Jun 2009
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Keywords: paid time off; paid sick leave; unemployment; unemployment rate;

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O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
O51 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada
O52 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
O57 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
I - Health, Education, and Welfare
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
H - Public Economics
H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health

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