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Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency

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  • Røed, Knut

    (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)

  • Fevang, Elisabeth

    (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)

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In this report the authors show that recent attempts to reorganise and cut costs in the Norwegian health care and social services sectors have had the unintended side effects of raising the level of sickness absence and disability among the employees, and that these effects have persisted several years after completion of the reorganisation processes. Since a substantial proportion of the resulting costs are external to the decision-makers, we suspect that the pace of change may have been excessively high. Changes that were efficient from each service provider’s point of view may have been inefficient from a social and a public-finance point of view.

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  • Røed, Knut & Fevang, Elisabeth, 2009. "Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2005:9, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:oslohe:2005_009
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    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy

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