enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …

claiming unemployment insurance benefits. Then, we explore the effect of potential benefit duration on the transitions to … extend their benefit duration by up to 90 days. The maximum number of days of this 'passive sickness benefit' was halved in … duration was cut by 45 days. However, we find that job finding hazard on the week after benefit exhaustion increased more for …

This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of … statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate …