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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, S; Ziebarth, N.R - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 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/10011185850
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Response bias in job satisfaction surveys: English general practitioners
Gravelle, H; Hole, AR; Hussein, I - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. We examine response bias using data from a postal job satisfaction survey of family doctors. We link all the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328405
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“Do I really need to go to rehab? I’d say no, no, no.” Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs
N, Ziebarth - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962218
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A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs
N, Ziebarth; M, Karlsson - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness episode to 80 percent. This measure increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480365
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The effects of expanding the generosity of the statutory sickness insurance system
N, Ziebarth; M, Karlsson - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for sickness episodes of up to six weeks. We show that this reform has led to an increase in average absence days of about 10 percent or one additional day per employee, per year. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480369
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Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease
Lacroix, G; M-E, Brouard - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between … acute illness that can prove to be relatively debilitating. Our analysis is based upon the absenteeism of workers employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009197283
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Absenteeism in the UK: A Comparison Across Genders
Bridges, Sarah; Mumford, Karen - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
supply. The model is tested with data from the 1993 UK Family Expenditure Survey (FES) and a comparison of absenteeism is … made across genders. We find substantial differences in the probability of absenteeism across gender and various family … also find that our conclusions concerning gender differences in absenteeism are sensitive to the definition of absenteeism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695916
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Job satisfaction in Italy: Individual characteristics and social relations
Fiorillo, D; Nappo, N - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our econometric analysis is based on four waves (1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000) of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistics Office. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145910
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Part-Time Sick Leave as a Treatment Method?
D, Andrén; T, Andrén - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
This paper analyzes the effects of being on part-time sick leave compared to full-time sick leave on the probability of recovering (i.e., returning to work with full recovery of lost work capacity). Using a discrete choice one-factor model, we estimate mean treatment parameters and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695785
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Sick of work or too sick to work? Evidence on health shocks and early retirement from the BHPS
Rice, Nigel; Roberts, Jennifer; Jones, Andrew M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2006
We follow individuals as they retire using discrete-time hazard models applied to a stock sample from 12 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively more important than pension entitlement. This is the...
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