“Never on a Sunday”: Economic Incentives and Sick Leave in Sweden
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Keywords
short-term absenteeism due to sickness; sickness insurance; reform; multiple spells; unobserved heterogeneity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2004-09-05 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2004-09-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2004-09-05 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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