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Reductions in SI replacement levels has been a widely used instrument to lower sickness absence rates. The idea is that increasing the direct cost of absence would lower the absence rate. This paper explores a reform to the compulsory Swedish SI that meant that the replacement rate varied over...
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In Norway, sick-leave compensation and disability benefit is comprehensive and an important component of employee … benefit recipiency levels remain extraordinarily high compared with other countries. This paper compares Norway’s reform … disability benefit systems. However, it appears that Norway’s reforms have so far been rather less successful. A broad impression …
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Is sickness absence related to attitudes? Several studies point to attitudes as an important factor for sickness absence. We study the relation between sickness absence and attitudes towards possible reasons for sick leave, towards cheating and towards work, by linking a survey among Norwegian...
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This register-based follow-up study focuses on the association between workplace characteristics and recruitment of people with a history of sickness absence. The aim was to study whether recruitment differs with regard to workplace sector, number of employees, gender composition, educational...
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