Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
HERO Online Working Paper Series,
University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme
No 2003:17: Absenteeism, Health Insurance, and Business Cycles
Morten Nordberg and Snorre Kverndokk (knut.roed@frisch.uio.no)
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Morten Nordberg: The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic, Postal: Norway
Snorre Kverndokk: The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic, Postal: Gaustadalléen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Dependent risks
34 pages, June 22, 2009
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