Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2018:14: Employment of people with a history of sickness absence
Gun Johansson (), Cecilia Orellana Pozo (), Jette Möller () and Karin Nordström ()
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Gun Johansson: Karolinska Institutet, Postal: Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), C6, Occupational medicine, Solnavägen 4, Plan 10 , 113 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Cecilia Orellana Pozo: Karolinska Institutet, Postal: Karolinska Institutet, Division of Insurance Medicine, SE-171 77 STOCKHOLM, Sweden,
Jette Möller: Karolinska Institute, Postal: Karolinska Institute, Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS), , K9, Public Health Epidemiology , 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Karin Nordström: Linköping University, Postal: Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning(IBL)
Abstract: This register-based follow-up study focuses on the association between workplace characteristics and recruitment of people with a history of sickness absence. The aim was to study whether recruitment differs with regard to workplace sector, number of employees, gender composition, educational level and average age, and whether these workplaces recruit differently with regard to gender and diagnosis. Swedish workplaces with five employees or more in 2012 were chosen (n = 138 081). The results showed that workplaces most likely to recruit people with a history of sickness absence were those characterized by being in the public and non-profit sector, being female-dominated, having few employees, a high proportion of low educated employees and a high average age. The likelihood of recruiting people with different diagnoses was, with a few exceptions, similar between various types of workplaces. Recruitment of men and women with a history of sickness absence was similar between the different workplaces.
Keywords: Employment; sickness absence; workplace; register-based
JEL-codes: J14; J15; J17; J23; J28
29 pages, October 5, 2018
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