This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed … workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential … endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the lower and upper part of the treatment duration distribution …

This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed … workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential … endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the lower and upper part of the treatment duration distribution. -- treatment …

enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of … statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate …