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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We present results for the five main NCDs (cardiovascular disease …, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal …
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic … costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks … and morbidity effects of non-communicable diseases, and iii) the treatment costs of diseases.We apply our methodology to …
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...
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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 employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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Disease and Fertility : Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden
Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2017
This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …
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Commuting and Sickness Absence
Goerke, Laszlo - 2017
We investigate the causal effect of commuting on sickness absence from work using German panel data. To address reverse causation, we use changes in commuting distance for employees who stay with the same employer and who have the same residence during the period of observation. In contrast to...
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Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
Hesselius, Patrik - 2009
by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Goeteborg, Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765096
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A Kink that Makes You Sick : The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
Bockerman, Petri - 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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Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence
Eriksen, Tine Louise - 2016
Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We analyze employees from a selection of workplaces from The Bullying Cohort Study conducted in Denmark in...
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The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence
Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2021
We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...
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