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Severity of work disability and work
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of...
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Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274395
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Re-employment Dynamics of Disabled Workers
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2001
We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262473
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The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 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/10010269512
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Sick of your colleagues' absence?
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268993
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Unemployment duration and disability: evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario; de Menezes, António Gomes; Vieira, … - 2007
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration … probability of leaving unemployment into employment. Negative duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are also found in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277007
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262149
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262563
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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272753
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A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs
Gerdes, Christer - 2015
This study looks at the effects of participating in active labour market policy programs for persons with work disabilities. More in detail, it draws attention to the importance of taking into account the timing of when a work disability has been registered for persons attending ALMP programs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307471