Gender Differences in Days Lost from Work Due to Illness

Vistnes, Jessica

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“…The findings of the present study are consistent with results from other countries which show that trade union membership and absence from work due to sickness are positively correlated (Leigh 1984, Vistnes 1997, Veliziotis 2010and Mastekaasa 2011. However, we can go a step further since the reform of sick pay in Germany in 1996 allows us to causally establish the impact of individual trade union membership on absence behaviour.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Using the University of Michigan's Quality of Employment Survey, either no correlation between individual membership and different absence indicators can be established (Leigh 1991), or a positive relationship between membership and being absent at all for blue collar workers (Leigh 1984). Vistnes (1997), using US data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey, observes membership to have a positive impact on absence among men. Looking beyond the United States, Böckerman and Ilmakunnas (2008) use the Finnish Quality of Work Life Survey and find, inter alia, that the number of illness-related absences is lower among union members than among non-members.…”

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke

Pannenberg

2012

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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. In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. Terms of use: Documents inWe show that union members may have stronger incentives to be absent and to react to the cut in sick pay. In the empirical investigation, we find a positive relationship between trade union membership and absence due to sickness and observe more pronounced reactions to the cut in sick pay among union members than among non-members. These findings suggest that more flexibility in the use of paid absence due to sickness constitutes a private gain from trade union membership.JEL-Code: I180, J510, J220.Keywords: difference-in-differences, sickness-related absence, Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), statutory sick pay, trade union membership. We are grateful to Nicolas Ziebarth for helpful comments and for providing background information on industry-specific bargaining contracts. Also, special thanks to Laszlo Goerke

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke

Pannenberg

2012

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“…The first two models ((i) and (ii)) are estimated for men and women separately as the determinants of absence may be gender-specific (Leigh, 1983;Vistnes, 1997). The estimated coefficients of the commuting variables are not statistically different from each other.…”

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Commuting and Sickness Absence

Goerke

Lorenz

2017

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“…The literature on absence includes estimations of the e¤ects of individuals' health status: Paringer (1983) found perceived health status to be an important predictor of hours lost from work, which was supported by Primo¤ Vistnes (1997), who also reported statistically signi…cant e¤ects of obesity and smoking on the likelihood for women's absence. The literature also provides massive support for that economic incentives a¤ect absence, for example the following four studies using Swedish data; Johansson and Brännäs (1998); Palme (2002, 2005); Henrekson and Persson (2004).…”

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The effect of health care expenditure on sickness absence

Granlund

2010

Eur J Health Econ

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Increased health care expenditure could be used to improve quality of care or reduce waiting time and could therefore be expected to a¤ect health and sickness absence of a population. Still, based on data from a panel of the Swedish municipalities, public health care expenditure was found to have no or a negligible e¤ect on absence due to sickness or disability. The same result was obtained when separate estimates were done for men and women and for absence due to sickness and disability.

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Gender Differences in Days Lost from Work Due to Illness

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Commuting and Sickness Absence

The effect of health care expenditure on sickness absence

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