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 … probability of absence and the number of days on sick leave conditional on absence. The county unemployment rate is found to …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies … whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive … effect) or, alternatively, to changes in the composition of the workforce over the business cycle (selection effect). In …

geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …

Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence …

spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a quasi-natural experiment in Norway, where pay …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …(incentive effect) or, alternatively, to changes in the composition of the workforce over thebusiness cycle (selection effect). …

Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker's absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …