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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703640
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International Comparisons of Work Disability
Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566405
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Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
Oguzoglu, Umut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are used to investigate this relationship. A two-equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703230
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Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis
Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125861
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822786
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183119
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Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees
Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C.; Pertold, Filip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670823
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Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
Soest, Arthur Van; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703511
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Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734759
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The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761621