Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …

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 …

create identification problems. A data set with 4.5 million individual observations for long-term sickness absence in Norway …

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 …

administrative registers from Norway with records on sick pay certification and GP-patient relationships, we present evidence to the …

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …