This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness … insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden s social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness … insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …