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This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing … firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery … earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a decrease in the rate of sick leave of 1.6 percentage point. From the …
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing … firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery … earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a decrease in the rate of sick leave of 1.6 percentage point. From the …
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Reductions in SI replacement levels has been a widely used instrument to lower sickness absence rates. The idea is that increasing the direct cost of absence would lower the absence rate. This paper explores a reform to the compulsory Swedish SI that meant that the replacement rate varied over...
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This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...
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This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...
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types of employer incentives seem to lower sickness rates, but they also come at the risk of increased under-reporting and …
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