Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - In: Health Economics 14 (2005) 11, pp. 1087-1101
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment rates. In addition to pure health effects, this may be due to moral hazard behavior by workers who are fully insured against income loss during sickness and to physicians who meet demand for medical certificates. Alternatively,...