Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Larsson, Laura - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005
The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a requirement for a doctor’s certificate, from day...