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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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Should sickness insurance and health care be administrated by the same jurisdiction? An empirical analysis

Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Martin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

doctor. Since health care is administered at the county level, this means that monitoring is, to some extent, decentralized …

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Sanctions for young welfare recipients

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Early interventions and disability insurance: experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions – in contrast to what is expected – increase the inflow into...

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Substitution between temporary parental leave and sickness absence

Persson, Malin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

subject to intensified monitoring. Receiving this information decreased utilization of the temporary parental benefit but at …

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Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: evidence from a social experiment

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Larsson, Laura - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on … sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a … sickness absence is found. A heterogeneity analysis reveals that monitoring affects men more than women. …

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The information method - theory and application

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

When estimating the extent of e.g. excess use of public benefits one traditionally uses direct monitoring. Such direct … to information of increased monitoring. Through an extensive randomized social experiment we apply the method to one … on ordinary random monitoring (22.5 percent compared to 16 percent). The method is potentially applicable to a large …

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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance: A review of recent research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …

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