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Sickness absence and search unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2004

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual searchand labor supply decisions and triggers movements across labor force states. The employed...

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A continuous theory of income insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on … continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it …

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Fair pension policies with occupation-specific aging

Grossmann, Volker; Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement...

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Flexible retirement and optimal taxation

Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Yu, Zhixiu - 2025

and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and …, income taxation, and savings incentives and distinguishes three channels through which health affects retirement …: nonconvexities in labor supply due to health-dependent fixed costs of working, earnings reductions, and mortality risk. We estimate …

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Job security and work absence : evidence from a natural experiment

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...

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Social interaction and sickness absence

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor); … - 2008

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Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work

Marie, Olivier; Vall Castelló, Judit - 2022

We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...

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Worker absenteeism in search equilibrium

Engström, Per (contributor); Holmlund, Bertil (contributor) - 2005

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the workers. Firms offer wages, and possibly sick...

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Improved menstrual health and the workplace : an RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers

Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2023

interventions improve health outcomes. However, these positive effects do not translate to better labor outcomes, such as earnings …

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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …

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