Since the beginning of the 1990's, sick leave benefits accruing from the tax-financed Swedish social security insurance have been reduced a number of times. In this paper we use data from the survey on the Household Market and Non-market activities to estimate a fixed effects negative binomial model. We find a direct relationship between the rate of compensation and the amount of sick leave taken
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Length: 18 pages Date of creation: 27 Jan 2004 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhs:lunewp:2004_003
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