Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study

Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting more than two weeks. We estimate fixed effects models of the probability of absence and the number of days on sick leave conditional on absence. The county unemployment rate is found to affect the probability of absence negatively. When restricting the sample to workers who are present in the whole sample period, the negative relationship between absence and unemployment remains. The evidence on duration goes in the same direction. This indicates that the revealed procyclical variation in sickness absence is not driven by changes in the composition of the labour force.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Askildsen, Jan Erik ; Bratberg, Espen ; Nilsen, Øivind Anti
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Erwerbsunfähigkeit \| Fehlzeit \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Arbeitskräfte \| Schätzung \| Norwegen \| sickness absence \| unemployment \| panel data

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 466
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	845477544 [GVK] hdl:10419/21491 [Handle]
Classification:	J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Private Pensions ; J28 - Safety; Accidents; Industrial Health; Job Satisfaction, Related Public Policy ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
Source:	EconStor

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