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Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence : a panel data study

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002

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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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Income effects of disability benefits

Becker, Sebastian; Gehlen, Annica; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2024

We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy...

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Income effects of disability benefits

Becker, Sebastian; Gehlen, Annica; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2024

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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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Labor supply responses to learning the tax and benefit schedule

Kostøl, Andreas R.; Myhre, Andreas S. - 2020

While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of this paper is to separately quantify the role of learning the tax and benefit schedule versus other...

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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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Forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth : evidence from Germany

Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Giupponi, … - 2023

We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...

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