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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...
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poor health makes people less productive, we expect to find a negative effect of previous health history on hourly wages …. If, instead, poor health reduces people´s working capacity, but not their productivity, this implies only a decrease in …
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suggest that there was more heterogeneity among spells grouped by the factors related to the health status of the individual …
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In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during 1986-1989, the aim is to analyze the transition to different states, i.e.,...
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The number of disability exits has been increasing in recent years, raising questions both about the well being of affected individuals, and about how to finance the related disability pensions. Using a longitudinal database owned by the Swedish National Social Insurance Board, this study...
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longitudinal database. If poor health makes people less productive, previous sickness is expected to have a negative effect on … hourly wages. If poor health reduces people’s working capacity, but not their productivity, it is expected to decrease the …
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A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance …, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health …-optimal level, because of the trade-off in his or her preferences for health versus other utility-affecting commodities. However …
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were removed from power, to understand its impact on childrens health at birth and during early childhood and whether the … lift of the ban had an immediate impact on child abandonment. We find insignificant estimates for health at birth outcomes …
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represents a health hazard, while a competing hypothesis predicts that loss of job security works as a disciplinary device. In …
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Workers with difficult working conditions can be expected to be com-pensated by higher wages. They may, for example, choose shift work because of compensating wages but it is also possible that they prefer shift work. The previous empirical evidence is mixed. We study if there are compensating...
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