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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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Unionization and sickness absence from work in the UK
Veliziotis, Michail - 2010
Does union membership increase sickness absence from work and, if so, by how much? And which specific channels does this effect operate through? Using UK Labour Force Survey data for 2006-2008 we find that trade union membership is associated with a substantial increase in the probability of...
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Krankheitsverleugnung: Betriebliche Gesundheitskulturen und neue Arbeitsformen
Kocyba, Hermann; Voswinkel, Stephan - 2007
In den letzten Jahren ist der Krankenstand kontinuierlich gesunken. Verantwortlich hierfür sind nicht nur die Erfolge betrieblicher Gesundheitspolitik. Die Reduzierung der Fehlzeiten ist auch Indiz dafür, dass es für Erwerbstätige schwieriger wird, gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen...
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Trade-offs between health and absenteeism in welfare states: Striking the balance
Markussen, Simen - 2007
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 …
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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 …
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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...
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The anatomy of absenteeism
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J.; … - 2009
Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence behavior; in terms of employee characteristics workplace characteristics, panel doctor characteristics, and economic conditions. The analysis is based on a novel concept of a worker's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269016
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Innovative work practices and sickness absence: What does a nationally representative employee survey tell?
Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Kauhanen, Antti - 2009
The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the 'bundles'...
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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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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
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