The Role of Employer-Provided Sick Pay in Britain and Norway

Interventions Compared with current sick leave practice (baseline), we evaluated the health and cost consequences of: (1) increasing the proportion of workers on sick leave from

The ideas launched by the Beveridge Commission in 1942 set the pace for major reforms in post-war Britain, and inspired Norwegian welfare programmes as well, with gradual

Visiting people with tuberculosis in their homes was the responsibility of nurses mainly employed at local health stations.. During visits in the homes the nurse “has to try to be

Overall, there was a significant effect on sick leave, for the Education, Peer Support and Occupational clinic group Table 2 Sums and percentages of work days lost due to sick leave

We compute a monthly family doctor leniency indicator based on the overall certification of sick pay days for employed customers, controlled for customer composition and

The parameter estimate of -0.072 implies that when a physician switches from a variable to a fixed wage regime, the expected number of certified absence days among his/her customers

We conclude that responsibility for short-term absenteeism only undermines the firms’ incentives to prevent long-term absen- teeism; not only because they have little

The model is solved by finding an agent's decision rule which specifies for which levels of health he chooses work or sick leave, conditional on the policy variables.. By