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Closing the gates? : evidence from a natural experiment on physicians' sickness certification
Markussen, Simen - 2009
This paper exploits a Norwegian physician directed reform aimed to reduce sick-leave. Physicians were required to … documentation requirement laid on physicians within the first 8 weeks of a sick-leave spell. Physician-directed policies may be an … (cost-) effective way of reducing sick-leave. -- Labor market policies ; sick-leave ; physicians' gate keeping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872493
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Economic incentives and long-term sickness absence : the indirect effect of replacement rates on absence behavior
Nilsson, Martin - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373186
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Age-cohort-time effects in sickness absence : exploring a large data set by polynomial regression
Biørn, Erik - 2013
create identification problems. A data set with 4.5 million individual observations for long-term sickness absence in Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757087
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A kink that makes you sick : the incentive effect of sick pay on absence
Böckerman, Petri; Kanninen, Ohto; Suoniemi, Ilpo - 2014
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358769
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Activation against absenteeism : evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Norway
Hernæs, Øystein - 2017
I evaluate a program aimed at strictly enforcing a requirement that people on long-term sick leave be partly back at work unless explicitly defined as an exception. Employing the synthetic control method, I find that the reform reduced work-hours lost due to absenteeism by 12 % in the reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731942
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Does variation in GP practice matter for the length of sick leave? : a multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP-patient data
Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Islam, Md. Kamrul - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806792
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Spillovers from gatekeeping : peer effects in absenteeism
Godøy, Anna; Dale-Olsen, Harald - In: Journal of public economics 167 (2018), pp. 190-204
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035977
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Do Treatment Decisions Depend on Physicians' Financial Incentives?
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015
We study whether and how physicians respond to financial incentives, making use of detailed register data on the health …-care services provided to patients by general practitioners (GPs) in Norway over a six-year period (2006-11). To identify GPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017287
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Competition and physician behaviour : does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; … - 2017
Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … (emergency centre). Using rich administrative patient- level data from Norway for 2006-14, which allow us to estimate high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734380
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The market for paid sick leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
administrative registers from Norway with records on sick pay certification and GP-patient relationships, we present evidence to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455572