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Short-Term Absenteeism Due To Sickness: The Swedish Experience, 1986 - 1991

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Andrén, Daniela () (Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)

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The goal of this paper is to analyze short term-absences from work (i.e., periods of seven days or less) in Sweden during a period with two different reforms. As a theoretical model we use a utility-maximization framework with two restrictions (time and budget constraints). Using multiple spell data, short-term absenteeism is analyzed for a period with three regimes, and it is found that the 1991 reform (which lowered the replacement rate) had a stronger effect on the hazard of ending short-term absenteeism than did the 1987 reform (which eliminated the previous unpaid inwaiting dayli, while restricting the remuneration to only those days when people were scheduled to work). Even though economic incentives mattered, people with poorer health did not ioshortenlo their absences in the same extent as those with better health.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 46.

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Keywords: short-term absenteeism sickness spells; repeated events; unobserved heterogeneity;

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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; Private Pensions
J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods

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