the model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. By fitting parameters to match …

We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their … two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is provided by government authority and is designed to help small firms with … that the minimum cost of the present insurance scheme is similar to about 1100 man-years. On top of that comes a …

reform launched in Sweden in 2015, which introduced different thresholds for insurance reimbursement depending on firm size …This paper presents evidence on how firms react to a more generous insurance against high sick pay costs. We exploit a … evidence indicating that the more generous insurance made firms more inclined to employ more sick-prone individuals. Further …

Sweden in the areas of insurance sector regulation and supervision. The regulatory and supervisory framework has been … recommended to strengthen solvency regulation further. Solvency II should be applied in full to occupational pensions insurance …