Absenteeism in the workplace: results from Danish sample survey data

Jensen, Søren Sindberg; McIntosh, James

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“…Some studies have modeled the determinants of sick leave behavior theoretically and empirically (Jensen and McIntosh, 1999;Johansson and Palme, 1996), and others have shown how workplace conditions affect sickness absence (Dionne and Dostie, 2007;Ose, 2005). It is well documented that unemployment rates and absenteeism are negatively correlated.…”

Section: Literature and Backgroundmentioning

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Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard—Evidence from a natural experiment

Ziebarth

2013

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. AbstractSick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) system, the replacement level for periods of sickness of up to six weeks was reduced from 100 percent to 80 percent of an employee's gross wage at the end of 1996. At the same time, the replacement level for individuals absent for a long-term period, i.e., from the seventh week onwards, was reduced from 80 to 70 percent. We show theoretically that the net reform effects on long-term absenteeism can be disentangled into a direct and an indirect effect. Using SOEP data, a natural control group, and two different treatment groups, we estimate the net and the direct effect on the incidence and duration of long-term absenteeism by difference-in-differences. Our findings suggest that, on population average, the reforms have not affected long-term absenteeism significantly, which is in accordance with our theoretical predictions, assuming that employees on long-term sick leave are seriously sick. However, we find some heterogeneity in the effects and a small but significant decrease in the duration of long-term absenteeism for the poor and middle-ag...

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Section: Literature and Backgroundmentioning

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Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard—Evidence from a natural experiment

Ziebarth

2013

Labour Economics

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“…While sickness absences are usually classified as being involuntary, it is worth noting that external factors do not entirely determine an individual's decision to show up for or stay absent from paid work (Arne Mastekaasa 2000;Søren Jensen and James McIntosh 2007;Marrie H. J. Bekker, Christel G. Rutte, and Karen Van Rijswijk 2009). Depending on their specific state of health and particular job characteristics, individuals often (but not always) have the choice between going to paid work or staying at home and/or consulting a physician.…”

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Absent from Work? The Impact of Household and Work Conditions in Germany

Beblo¹,

Ortlieb²

2012

Feminist Economics

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This contribution investigates sickness absences of German men and women from a longitudinal perspective. The article tests hypotheses on household context and paid working conditions as determinants for men's and women's absences from employment. The empirical analysis is based on selected waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) between 1985 and 2001. The results of ordered probit estimations confirm that women's and men's sickness absences were related to both working conditions and household context. The findings thus indicate the potential empirical relevance of the ''double burden'' for German women and men. The stereotype of higher absences of women due to family obligations does not seem to fully represent the actual behavior of German employees, at least for the 1985-2001 period. However, the relative importance of specific working conditions and the relative importance of household structure versus amount of time spent in household production differed between men and women.

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“…Enkle sammenlikninger av sykefravaeret blant kvinner med forskjellig antall barn og/eller alder på barn har ikke gitt helt entydige resultater. Danske (Jensen and McIntosh 2007), finske (Väänänen, Kumpulainen, Kevin, Ala-Mursula, Kouvonen, Kivimäki, Toivanen, Linna og Vahtera 2008) og norske (Mastekaasa 2000) studier har stort sett vist at det er svake eller ingen statistiske sammenhenger mellom omsorg for barn og kvinners sykefravaer. Konsistent med dette finner Markussen, Røed, Røgeberg og Gaure (2011) at kjønnsfor-skjellen i sykefravaer er nokså lik uavhengig av om arbeidstakerne har barn under tolv år eller ikke.…”

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Kvinner og sykefravær

Mastekaasa¹

2016

TFV

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Professor -Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo, arne.mastekaasa@sosgeo.uio.no Det er lite støtte for hypotesen om at kvinner har høyere sykefravaer enn menn på grunn av mer belastende arbeidsforhold. Også hypotesen om at kombinasjonen av ansvar for barn og betalt arbeid kan forklare det høye sykefravaeret, får begrenset støtte. Det er flere tegn som tyder på at kjønnsforskjeller i helse eller reaksjoner på helseproblemer utvikles tidlig og før så vel familieetablering som starten på yrkeskarrieren. Dette tyder på at enten forskjeller i biologi eller i den tidlige sosialiseringen av gutter og jenter kan vaere viktige faktorer. NøkkelordSykefravaer, kjønn, arbeidsforhold, omsorgsoppgaver, ungdom, medisinbruk. Women and Sick LeaveThe article provides an overview of the state of knowledge regarding women's high levels of sickness absence. There is little support for the idea that women have higher sickness absence than men because of less healthy working conditions. The hypothesis that women's sickness absence is due to the combination of responsibility for children and paid employment also receives, at best, limited support. On the other hand, gender differences in health or in ways of dealing with illness seem to develop at an early stage, and earlier than both family formation and the start of the work career. This suggests that gender differences in sickness absence may to a considerable extent be due to biological factors or to differences in the socialization of boys and girls.

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Absenteeism in the workplace: results from Danish sample survey data

Abstract: Absenteeism, Count models, Random effects, Mixture distributions,

Cited by 25 publications

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Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard—Evidence from a natural experiment

Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard—Evidence from a natural experiment

Absent from Work? The Impact of Household and Work Conditions in Germany

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