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The market for paid sick leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping...
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The Sick Pay Trap
Fevang, Elisabeth; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In most countries, employers are financially responsible for sick pay during an initial period of a worker's absence spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a quasi-natural experiment in Norway, where pay liability was removed for pregnancy-related absences, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003474
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Daylight and absenteeism – Evidence from Norway
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 73-80
absenteeism by 0.5 percent and the corresponding recovery rate by 0.8 percent, ceteris paribus. The overall relationship between … absenteeism and daylight hours is negative. Absenteeism is also sensitive to weather conditions. Heavy snowfall raises the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011191052
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The Market for Paid Sick Leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479343
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The case for presenteeism — Evidence from Norway's sickness insurance program
Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 11, pp. 959-972
Can a work-first strategy control moral hazard problems in temporary disability insurance, and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation requirements not only bring down benefit claims, they also reduce the likelihood that long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056192
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The sick pay trap
Fevang, Elisabeth; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2011
In most countries, employers are financially responsible for sick pay during an initial period of a worker's absence spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a quasi-natural experiment in Norway, where pay liability was removed for pregnancy-related absences, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278529
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Trade-offs between health and absenteeism in welfare states: Striking the balance
Markussen, Simen - 2007
Workers’absenteeism due to illness represents a major concern in several countries. Absenteeism are however not very … well understood in economics. This paper presents a model where absenteeism is understood in relation to health. Its main … excess long-term absenteeism and (iii) strict regimes lead to excess short-term absenteeism. (iv) Maximizing health is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284264
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Trade-offs between health and absenteeism in welfare states: striking the balance
Markussen, Simen - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2007
Workers’absenteeism due to illness represents a major concern in several countries. Absenteeism are however not very … well understood in economics. This paper presents a model where absenteeism is understood in relation to health. Its main … excess long-term absenteeism and (iii) strict regimes lead to excess short-term absenteeism. (iv) Maximizing health is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652186
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The changing of the guards : can family doctors contain worker absenteeism?
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole - In: Journal of health economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1230-1239
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425176
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The market for paid sick leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - In: Journal of health economics 55 (2017), pp. 244-261
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