Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2004:10: Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
Per Johansson () and Mårten Palme ()
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Per Johansson: IFAU - Institute for labour market policy evaluation, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Mårten Palme: Stockholm University, Postal: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: We use a reform of Sweden’s sickness insurance system as a source of exogenous variation to analyse the presence of moral hazard. As a result of the reform, the replacement level was reduced from 90 percent of forgone earnings to 65 percent for the first three days; to 80 percent between day 4 and 90; and remained at 90 percent after 90 days. We find that the incidence of work absence decreased due to the decrease in compensation level and that effect on duration is in accordance with moral hazard in the sickness insurance. We estimate the elasticities of the incidence with respect to forgone earning to -1 for males and -0.70 for females.
Keywords: Worker absenteeism; Cox proportional hazard models; regression-discontinuity
29 pages, August 23, 2004
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