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The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages
Wikström, Johan - 2009
Several studies have documented that employer incentives, in form of experience rating, co-insurance or deductibles, could decrease the social insurance usage. Such employer incentives may though have unintended side effects, as it gives employers incentives to transfer the costs to their...
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The relationship between psychosocial work factors, employee health and organisational production: A systematic review
Karlsson, Malin Lohela; Björklund, Christina; Jensen, Irene - 2012
work environment and employee health and its impact on organisational production. Searches in several databases were … factors and employee health are predictors of production loss. The evidence was clearest with regard to job strain and … musculoskeletal pain. Although there was some evidence for the impact of psychosocial work factors and the health of employees on self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321107
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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual search and labor supply decisions and triggers movements across labor force states. The employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321523
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Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Vikström, Johan - 2008
We test if social work norms are important for work absence due to self-perceived sick-ness. To this end, we use a randomized social experiment designed to estimate the effect of monitoring on work absence. The treated were exposed to less monitoring of their eligibility to use sickness...
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Incentive and spill-over effects of supplementary sickness compensation
Hesselius, Patrik; Persson, Malin - 2007
In 1998 the Swedish national sickness insurance policy changed to allow additional compensation from e.g. collective agreements after the 90th day of absence without a reduction of the public sickness benefit. We estimate the effects of this policy change on the duration of sickness absence for...
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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/10010273918
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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies
Johansson, Per; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Verho, Jouko - 2012
This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large …
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Does Sick Absence Increase the Risk of Unemployment?
Hesselius, Patrik - 2003
The paper examines whether a worker's sick absence behaviour influences the risk of becoming unemployed. Swedish panel data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment. The results indicate that an increase in the number of...
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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …
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