Evaluation sozialpolitischer Reformen

verfasst von

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

Abstract

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Arbeitsökonomik

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Zeitschrift fur Arbeitsmarktforschung

Band

44

Seiten

205-213

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

1867-8343

Publikationsdatum

01.06.2011

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehungen, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie, Organisationslehre und Personalmanagement

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 1 – Keine Armut

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12651-011-0071-9 (Zugang: Offen)