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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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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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How does job coaching help disability insurance recipients work while on claim?

Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022

We evaluate the effects of a Supported Employment (SE) program aimed at Disability Insurance (DI) recipients with mental conditions. The program is characterized by a "work-first" approach, which includes intensive job coaching and follow-along support. Using a Randomized Control Trial with more...

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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and...

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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018

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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers

Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022

This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and...

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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers: quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform

Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2020

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives,...

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Cash transfers and labor supply : new evidence on impacts and mechanisms

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tarp, Finn - 2023

We study the impact of a national cash transfer program in Vietnam on labor supply using large household surveys and a regression-discontinuity design based on discontinuity in age eligibility. We do not find evidence of a disincentive effect of the cash transfer on labor supply for adults aged...

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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Brugiavini, Agar - 2009

This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

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Work incentives and universal credit : reform of the benefit system in the United Kingdom

Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2013

Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce...

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