The short-run impacts of Connecticut's paid sick leave legislation

Tom Ahn and Aaron Yelowitz

Applied Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 22, issue 15, 1267-1272

Abstract: In 2012, Connecticut became the first state to enact paid sick leave legislation. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find the law had modest but negative effects on the labour market, particularly on the likelihood of working in the past week.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1023934

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