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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001341
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016269
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The Effect of Job Loss on Health : Evidence from Biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044422
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Unemployment and Health : A Meta-Analysis
Picchio, Matteo; Ubaldi, Michele - 2022
This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 study results coming from 65 articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2021. We find that publication bias is important, but only for those study results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080612
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Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease
Lacroix, Guy - 2011
Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between the types of illnesses that prompt workers to stay home or seek care. This paper focuses on chronic migraine, a common and acute illness that can prove to be relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128228
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
due to sickness and observe more pronounced reactions to the cut in sick pay among union members than among non …-members. These findings suggest that more flexibility in the use of paid absence due to sickness constitutes a private gain from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099789
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Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees
Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - 2012
We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their … two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is provided by government authority and is designed to help small firms with … the financial burden related to sickness absence of their workers. We use an exogenously-set threshold for the eligibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099791
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Disease and Development Revisited
Bloom, David E. - 2013
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081821
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The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2009
We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153305
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833253