Arbeitspapier
Employment Protection and Sickness Absence
An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection and sickness absence among employees is examined. The average treatment effect from the exemption is found to decrease sickness absence by more than 13 percent at those establishments that were treated relative to those that were not and this was due to a behavioral, rather than a compositional, effect. The results suggest that the exemption had the largest impact on shorter spells and among establishments with a relatively low share of females or temporary contracts.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 717
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health: Other
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Labor Standards: Public Policy
- Subject
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Employment Protection
Sickness Absence
Economic Incentives
Kündigungsschutz
Krankheit
Fehlzeit
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Wirkungsanalyse
Schweden
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Olsson, Martin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Olsson, Martin
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2007
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