New causal evidence on the effects of activation- and workplace intervention policies for reducing sickness absence
Number | 1671 |
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Project manager | Andreas Kotsadam |
Client | NFR |
Client project no. | 259512 |
Participants | Asbjørn Goul Bjerrum Andersen Pathric Hagglund Karen Evelyn Hauge Per Johansson Andreas Kotsadam Simen Markussen Knut Røed Tao Zhang |
Period | 2016 - 2019 |
Project description
Primary objectives:Improved understanding of what interventions work to prevent sickness absence and increase activation. In particular the project aims to extend existing knowledge on the following fields:
- Can dialogue meetings between the physician, the employer, and the absentee reduce sickness absence, and if so, why?
- Are the effects similar for different people and what is the best design of the meeting for different types of individuals?
- Is it better to have targeted interventions or general ones and what is the optimal mix of caseworker discretion and statistical modelling to design the targeting?
- What is the effect of work-life centers on sickness absence in the short and long run?
- What specific preventive measures and work adjustments work best at the firm level?
Secondary objectives: :
- Build knowledge and experience in the use of intervention data merged with labour market data
- Build knowledge and experience on the use of experimental data combined with reg.data
Publications
Scientific Journal
Author(s): | Title: | Year: | Reference: | Link: |
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Alpino, Matteo, Karen E. Hauge, Andreas Kotsadam, Simen Markussen | Effects of Dialogue Meetings on Sickness Absence - Evidence from a Large Field Experiment | 2022 | Journal of Health Economics 83, 102615 | [PDF] [DOI] |