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Bill Kosteas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

test that in any way, shape or form.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

You know, once you start getting up to six to 10 days or more than that, now you're talking about, you know, I can take a few days of sick leave if I need them and I still have vacation days.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

So that's the way I think about it.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

Yeah.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

And so one thing, my caveat here is that these are average, what we call kind of average treatment effects, right?

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

So depending on which specification we're looking at, if we're looking at men or women or the whole sample together, you might see that take just one of our kind of

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

one of our main results from this, if I look at like the full, the full sample of it, you get about between 40% reduction in the kind of full sample or roughly around in there, 35 to 45%, depending on whether we're talking about six to 10 days or 10 days and more, right?

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

That's a pretty big saying that, you know, that the rate at which someone is going to resign or leave voluntarily leave their job

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

It gets cut, not quite in half, but pretty significant.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

And so that's one way of looking at, you know, how we, that's how we're going to interpret those results from what we're talking about this, you know, anybody, sure, everybody's going to run and read the paper now, right?

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

They're going to rush it, download the paper, read it.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

When you look at the numbers in it, that's how you interpret that, right?

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

I would say that that's, you know, you can look at our research and say, hey, here's some information, right, that might help you.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

Again, with another caveat there, right, it's we didn't break this down by industry or type, like, you know, what occupations workers are in.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

And so that cost-benefit analysis can change dramatically.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

You know, for one thing, you know, as I said, like, if we want to take, say, 40% as a rough ballpark, because we got a range of estimates, you know, in the paper.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

Z1 take 40%.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

There's a 40% reduction in turnover rates on average.

The Last Show with David Cooper
More Vacation Could Keep You From Quitting

But again, that's on average.