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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …
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A kink that makes you sick : the incentive effect of sick pay on absence
Böckerman, Petri; Kanninen, Ohto; Suoniemi, Ilpo - 2014
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...
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Activation against absenteeism : evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Norway
Hernæs, Øystein - 2017
I evaluate a program aimed at strictly enforcing a requirement that people on long-term sick leave be partly back at work unless explicitly defined as an exception. Employing the synthetic control method, I find that the reform reduced work-hours lost due to absenteeism by 12 % in the reform...
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The market for paid sick leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
administrative registers from Norway with records on sick pay certification and GP-patient relationships, we present evidence to the …
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Structural empirical analysis of vacancy referrals with imperfect monitoring and the strategic use of sickness absence
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Foerster, Hanno; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2023
This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in the job search behavior of unemployed individuals, incorporating institutional features of the monitoring of search behavior by the agencies. Notably, rejections of VRs may lead...
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The case for presenteeism
Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - 2010
Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation requirements not only bring down benefit claims, they also reduce the likelihood that long-term...
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Profiling the US sick leave landscape
Susser, Philip; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a representative and comprehensive database on sick...
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If sick-leave becomes more costly, will i go back to work? : could it be too soon?
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2020
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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Severe air pollution and school absences : longitudinal data on expatriates in North China
Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2017
Little is known about how children of high-income expatriate families, often from rich nations, adapt to temporary residence in a severely polluted city of the developing world. We use a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate...
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...
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