"Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop": Waiting for Health Care and Duration of Sick Leave

Arbeitspapier

This paper uses a labor supply model that incorporates waiting for health care to derive an empirical specification for sick leave and to estimate the impact of waiting for health care on the duration of sick leave. In the estimations, we use the 2002 sample of the RFV-LS register database, supplemented with information from questionnaires. The results indicate that almost all waiting for health care variables have a statistically significant positive impact on the duration of sick leave, and did not induce substantial changes on the impact of traditional variables of the labor supply model.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 8/2010

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
• Subject: sick leave ; waiting list

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Andrén, Daniela ; Granlund, David
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Örebro University School of Business
• (where): Örebro
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/244462
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