Arbeitspapier
Sickness Absence and Local Cultures
Sickness absence has been found to vary substantially across geographical areas. There are large differences between different countries but also between different regions within a particular country. In the literature some of these observed differentials have been suggested to stem from differences in local norms with regard to the legitimacy of living off benefits. The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of geographical and presumed cultural context on sickness absence. In order to identify this effect we compare changes in sickness related absence for individuals who move from one Swedish region to another with those occurring when individuals move within Swedish regions. Our results indicate that the region of residence is important to the individual sickness related absence. Moreover, we cannot rule out the possibility that the observed patterns are caused by local cultures regarding sickness absence and the existence of a so called "cultural illness".
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 11/2010
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Subject
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Sickness absence
social norms
domestic migration
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ekblad, Kristin
Bokenblom, Mattias
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Örebro University School of Business
- (where)
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Örebro
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ekblad, Kristin
- Bokenblom, Mattias
- Örebro University School of Business
Time of origin
- 2010
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