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The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event but also their family members. Potential caregivers face a tradeoff between time spent earning income for the family and providing care for their spouse, which could be affected...
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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 …
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Staff turnover in the long-term care (LTC) sector in England is perceived to be relatively high. Most job leavers do not leave the sector, but rather move to other LTC employers. Nevertheless, there are concerns that the high 'churn' has a negative impact on continuity and quality of care, care...
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extend their benefit duration by up to 90 days. The maximum number of days of this 'passive sickness benefit' was halved in … claiming unemployment insurance benefits. Then, we explore the effect of potential benefit duration on the transitions to … duration was cut by 45 days. However, we find that job finding hazard on the week after benefit exhaustion increased more for …
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This paper exploits a government initiative to analyze the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals with mild or moderate mental illness and multidisciplinary treatment (MDT) for individuals with pain in back and shoulders. We employ a propensity score matching approach to...
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Identification of equations explaining a continuous variable, e.g., the length of sickness absence spells, by age, cohort and time (ACT), subject to their definitional identity is reconsidered. Various extensions of a linear equation to polynomials are explored. If no interactions between the...
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