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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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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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This study tests for forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system by exploiting a 1991 reform in Sweden. The replacement rate was reduced for short absences but not for long absences, which introduced a potential future cost of returning to work. Using this exogenous variation in...
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. The sickness recovery intensity is function of age at sickness onset, x, and duration of sickness, z. The graduation …
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