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The Market for Paid Sick Leave
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible?
Markussen, Simen, Røed, Knut
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The cost of sickness: On the effect of the duration of sick leave on post-sick leave earnings
Social Science & Medicine, 2010Studies analysing the effect of the duration of sick leave on subsequent labour market outcomes do not consider the potential endogenous relationship between duration and labour market outcomes. This paper deals with this shortcoming by using a consistent estimator attained through Instrumental Variables methods for estimating the effect of the ...
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Sick-Leave Regimes: The Private-Public Mix in Sickness Provision
International Journal of Sociology, 1990Sickness insurance (SI) systems are part of the welfare state. This chapter focuses on the characteristics of the SI systems and their direct effects, or what one could call the narrow causal loop. It explores the respective roles of public and private institutions and organizations in sickness insurance. Sickness insurance systems are again alike, but
Rafael Lindqvist, Sven Bislev
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Business Horizons, 1983
J.H. Foegen is Professor of Business at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. He is the author of nearly 200 articles, the majority on industrial relations. The author would like to acknowledge the conceptual insights of Mr. Tim Fagely and the research assistance of Ms. Shed Kiel.
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J.H. Foegen is Professor of Business at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. He is the author of nearly 200 articles, the majority on industrial relations. The author would like to acknowledge the conceptual insights of Mr. Tim Fagely and the research assistance of Ms. Shed Kiel.
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Vocational rehabilitation and future sick-leave
Disability and Rehabilitation, 1998The aim of the present pretest-posttest study was to examine and compare the impact of vocational rehabilitation on future sick-leave for employed and unemployed people, respectively, on long-term sick-leave. The study is based on 416 registered long-term sick-leave cases that were initiated during 1992-94 in the city of Stockholm, and that became ...
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Nursing Standard, 1994
A West Country trust is hoping to save £90,000 a year with a new sick leave monitoring system. Management at South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to distinguish between staff who constantly take odd days and those who have the same leave at one time.
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A West Country trust is hoping to save £90,000 a year with a new sick leave monitoring system. Management at South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to distinguish between staff who constantly take odd days and those who have the same leave at one time.
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The individual cost of sick leave
Journal of Population Economics, 2011This paper aims to estimate the causal effect of sick leave on subsequent earnings and employment, using an administrative dataset for Norway. To obtain experiment-like variation in sick leave among otherwise similar workers, the leniency of these workers’ physicians—certifying sickness absences—is used as an instrumental variable for sick leave.
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Being on Sick Leave: Possible Explanations for Differences of Sick-leave Days Across Countries
CESifo Economic Studies, 2007Sick-leave days differ widely among industrialised countries. For the US it is 5, for Sweden 20 and for Poland 26 days per year and per employee. The possible causes for these differences have apparently not been systematically analysed. Two groups of contributing factors are considered: (i) objective causes, like the general health situation ...
Rigmar Osterkamp, Oliver Röhn
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Sick but at work: Graded sick leave in a comparative perspective
Social Policy & Administration, 2020AbstractMeasures to activate sick‐listed workers and to combine work with sickness benefits are a growing but little‐studied policy field. This article investigates graded sick leave benefits in Sweden, Finland and Germany. The analysis reveals some commonalities between countries, as well as substantial differences in terms of institutional background,
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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2008
Aims: To describe the consequences of long-term sick leave (>28 days) on working situation, health and lifestyle among employees from the public sector in Sweden. Methods: Employees in four county councils and two municipalities on long term sick leave on 1 November 2005 (n = 1,128) answered a questionnaire in February 2006.
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Aims: To describe the consequences of long-term sick leave (>28 days) on working situation, health and lifestyle among employees from the public sector in Sweden. Methods: Employees in four county councils and two municipalities on long term sick leave on 1 November 2005 (n = 1,128) answered a questionnaire in February 2006.
Malin Josephson +2 more
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