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Chapter 5 Sickness Absence from Work

In: Simulating an Ageing Population: A Microsimulation Approach Applied to Sweden

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  • Kristian Bolin
  • Sören Höjgård
  • Björn Lindgren

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There are many factors that may explain the number of spells and the number of days of absence from work reported as due to sickness. Health problems seem to be the most natural candidate to include among the explanatory factors, but individual health behavior could enter the scene in several ways. A day of reported sickness might primarily be due to the fact that a person's capacity to produce market goods and household commodities is so heavily reduced so the day is just spent at home with very little or no household commodities produced. It might also be a day when the person actively produces a restoration of his or her health, combining own time and healthcare of some kind. It might be a day when the person waits for a hospital treatment, for instance, a hip replacement, but his or her condition is an obstacle for taking part in market production (very much depending on the kind of job, in which the person would normally be involved).

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  • Kristian Bolin & Sören Höjgård & Björn Lindgren, 2008. "Chapter 5 Sickness Absence from Work," Contributions to Economic Analysis, in: Simulating an Ageing Population: A Microsimulation Approach Applied to Sweden, pages 115-141, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ceazzz:s0573-8555(07)00005-3
    DOI: 10.1016/S0573-8555(07)00005-3
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