Sykefravær i offentlig og privat sektor

Abstract

SammendragData fra Statistisk sentralbyrås arbeidskraftundersøkelser 2006-2012 kombinert med registerdata brukes til å undersøke forskjeller i sykefravaer mellom statlig, kommunal og privat sektor. Det samlete sykefravaeret er klart høyest i kommunene, mens det ikke er noen signifikant forskjell mellom staten og privat sektor. En god del av forskjellen mellom kommune, stat og privat sektor skyldes de ansattes kjønns-og alderssammensetning; også med kontroll for disse forholdene samt blant annet utdanning og yrke er imidlertid fravaeret tolv prosent høyere i kommunal enn i privat sektor. For fravaer av inntil én ukes varighet ligger både staten og kommunene klart høyere enn privat sektor, og her er forskjellene lite påvirket av kontroll for andre variabler.Nøkkelord: sykefravaer, offentlig sektor, privat sektor, kommuner Abstract: Sickness absence in the public and private sectors In this article, data from Statistics Norway's Labour Force Surveys 2006-2012 are combined with administrative register data and used to examine sectoral differences in sickness absence. Overall, sickness absence is clearly highest in the municipal sector, whereas there is no significant difference between the state and the private sector. A substantial part of the difference is due to gender and age distribution; even with control for these and several other variables (such as level of education), however, a 12 percent difference between municipalities and the private sector remains. Sickness absence of one week's duration or less is higher among both state and municipality employees than among those in the private sector, the differences are in this case little affected when controlling for other variables.

Long-term Sickness Absence Among Professionals: Investigating Gender, Socioeconomic Position and Care Work

“…The fact that higher income was associated with a higher risk of LTSA for female professionals warrants further research. Finally, both the proportion of female coworkers and working in the public sector were positively associated with LTSA, as previously found (Bryngelson et al 2011;Mastekaasa 2016).…”

“…Workplace gender composition is another relevant factor since elevated levels of LTSA are found in both extremely male-dominated and female-dominated workplaces (Bryngelson et al 2011). Lastly, professionals are distributed differently among the public and private sector, which might be of importance because of the lower levels of absence in the private sector (Mastekaasa 2016).…”

Return to work after first incidence of long-term sickness absence: A 10-year prospective follow-up study identifying labour-market trajectories using sequence analysis

“…Public (as compared to private) sector workers had a lower OR of entering a trajectory of unemployment. One explanation could be that former sick-listed individuals are more vulnerable to downsizing and restructuring in the private sector [28]. The higher OR of belonging to trajectories of rehabilitation and DP for older workers may reflect worse prospects for rehabilitation and a preference for alternatives to reemployment, since they are less likely to RTW following vocational rehabilitation [29], and DP can act as a pathway to early retirement, since age is associated with a higher risk of DP [30].…”