Organizational Change, Absenteeism, and Welfare Dependency

Røed, Knut; Fevang, Elisabeth

doi:10.3368/jhr.xlii.1.156

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“…Effects of other types of organizational change suggest that they are associated with a deterioration of psychosocial working conditions (Bourbonnais et al, 2005;Robinson and Griffiths, 2005) and increased sickness absence (Bernstrom and Kjekshus, 2015;Kokkinen et al, 2013;Røed and Fevang, 2007). In the study of a merger between two hospitals in New York, Jick (1979) found increased turnover in the year of the merger.…”

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Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations

Ingelsrud

2017

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Section: Theory and Hypotheses Turnover During Mergersmentioning

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Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations

Ingelsrud

2017

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“…Displacement affects both the short-and long-term wage and employment prospects of workers (Ruhm 1991;Stevens 1997;Huttunen et al 2011;Eliason and Storrie 2006;Røed and Fevang 2007). However, much less is known about the effect of displacement on the household as a whole.…”

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Displacement and household adaptation: insured by the spouse or the state?

Hardoy

Schøne

2013

J Popul Econ

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We investigate the added worker effect in a setting where female labour supply is high and the welfare state is generous. We trace couples' labour supply and income development following the husband's job displacement. We find no support for the added worker effect for the full sample of households. However, it seems to be at work for subsamples characterised by households where the spouses are not working in the same industry and where the wife did not work full time pre-displacement. When using a measure of total household income, which includes public transfers, we find that the negative income impact of displacement is reduced by approximately 60 to 70 per cent when we also adjust for lower tax payments. Results suggest that income loss due to displacement is mitigated more by social welfare payments than by labour supply responses of the spouse.JEL classification: J15, J63, J65

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“…Studies have shown that people involved in such downsizing processes have higher levels of sickness absence, disability pensioning and non-employment (Rege et al, 2005;Røed and Fevang, 2007). Turnover rates in the Norwegian labour market increased from 20 per cent to 26 per cent during the 1990s, controlled for business cycle and industry effects (Dale-Olsen, 2005: 261).…”

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“…Studies from Sweden indicate increasing job strain during the 1990s (Bäckman and Edling, 2000;Rostila, 2008), but Norwegian studies of the 'new' labour market do not seem to indicate a harder working life (Frisholm and Leiulfsrud, 2003;Ellingsaeter, 2007;Kalleberg et al, 2009). Even though working life may not be harder, studies tend to find that work organization adaptations in the form of restructuring and downsizing increase the risk of labour market exclusion (Røed and Fevang, 2007), especially among low-qualified workers (Rege et al, 2005). Notably, the percentage of firms downsizing increased rapidly between 1995 and 2000 (Røed and Fevang, 1 9 7 5 1 9 7 8 1 9 8 1 1 9 8 4 1 9 8 7 1 9 9 0 1 9 9 3 1 9 9 6 1 9 9 9 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 8 Men Women Figure 1.…”

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Erratum: Employment inequalities through busts and booms: The changing roles of health and education in Norway 1980-2005

2011

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In this article, we study trends in employment by education and long-standing illness (LSI), and discuss whether the findings are compatible with business cycle fluctuations or postindustrial labour market developments. Our analyses are based on data on the working age population (aged 25-66 years) from the Norwegian Survey of Living Conditions . We find increasing differences in employment between those reporting LSI and those who do not, while gender differences are getting smaller. Interaction terms from logistic regression analyses between time and LSI, and time and education, indicate that people with lower education and those reporting LSI are more often found outside the labour market over time. While the 1980s recession did not have much impact on employment inequalities, the more severe 1990s recession coincided with widening employment inequalities by education and health. Periods of economic recovery did not mitigate these

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Organizational Change, Absenteeism, and Welfare Dependency

Cited by 47 publications

References 34 publications

Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations

Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations

Displacement and household adaptation: insured by the spouse or the state?

Erratum: Employment inequalities through busts and booms: The changing roles of health and education in Norway 1980-2005

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