Absenteeism, Health Insurance, and Business Cycles
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Forfattere:
Nordberg, Morten and Knut Røed
År:
2003
Referanse:
HERO Skrifter
Nummer i serie: 17
Sammendrag (engelsk)
We use a dependent competing risks hazard rate model to investigate individual sickness absence behaviour in Norway, on the basis of register data covering more than 2 million absence spells. Our findings are: i) that business cycle improvements yield lower work-resumption rates for persons who are absent, and higher relapse rates for persons who have already resumed work; ii) that absence sometimes represents a health investment, in the sense that longer absence ‘now’ reduces the subsequent relapse propensity; and iii) that the work-resumption rate increases when sickness benefits are exhausted, but that work-resumptions at this point tend to be short-lived.
Nøkkelord:
Absenteeism, Dependent risks
JEL:
J22, C41
Prosjekt info:
Oppdragsgiver: HEROOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 4102 - Sykefravær og medisinsk diagnose
ISBN:
82-7756-123-7
Kontakt:
knut.roed@frisch.uio.no
Finansiering:
Norwegian Ministry of Labour and GovernmentAdministration and the Health Economics Research Program at the University of Oslo.
