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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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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence : A Panel Data Study

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2021

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 labor force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyze sickness absences lasting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320576

The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time

Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts - with weaker work-norms - into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health …

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Rehabilitation of mental illness and chronic pain : the impact on sick leave and health

Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per-Olov; Laun, Lisa - 2015

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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Reprint of: the pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Journal of public economics 171 (2019), pp. 86-104

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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Journal of public economics 156 (2017), pp. 14-33

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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2014

In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits is an important concern in the policy debate. There are strong variations in absence behavior among local geographical areas. Such variations are difficult to explain in terms of observable socioeconomic factors. In this...

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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2011

In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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The effect of public pensions on women's labor market participation over a full life cycle

Sánchez Marcos, Virginia; Bethencourt, Carlos - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 707-733

Spousal and survivor pensions are two important provisions of the US Social Security pension system. In this paper, we assess the impact of these benefits on the female employment rate in the context of a full life‐cycle model in which households decide on female labor supply and savings. One...

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