Assessing the effect of public policy on worker absenteeism

By Per-Olov Johansson, Mårten Palme. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications (2006, unknown): “See Chen and Van der Klaauw (2008) for a recent study on the disincentive effects of the DI program in the Unites States and see Johansson and Palme (2002) for a recent contribution on the effect of the level of sick pay on long-term absence in Sweden. than elsewhere.”
New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data (2007, unknown): “…small samples.3,4,5 Our work is thus more closely related to the second strand of the literature 1For example, Henrekson and Persson (2004) use aggregate data from the National Social Insurance Board of Sweden, Johansson and Palme (2002) use data from the 1991 Swedish Level of Living Survey (SLLS).”
Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort (2003, background): “Johansson and Palme (1996, 2002) describe the decline in absenteeism among Swedish men after a reduction of sick-pay, and Barmby (2002) finds that workers reduce absences more when sick-pay is low relative to earnings.”
Worker Absence and Shirking: Evidence from Matched Teacher-School Data, Labour Economics Research Group (LERG) Discussion Paper Series, June 2005 (2007, background): “Devising an appropriate policy response to absenteeism is therefore complex, even more so when it is realised that worker absence can occur involuntarily because of physical or mental ill-health, or because of voluntary shirking behaviour by workers (Barmby et al 1994, Johansson and Palme 2002).”
A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs (2010, background): “The handful of existing papers exploit legislative changes in the bene t levels in Sweden (Johansson and Palme, 1996, 2002, 2005; Henrekson and Persson, 2004; Pettersson-Lidbom and Skogman Thoursie, 2008).”