Part-Time Sick Leave as a Treatment Method?

Daniela Andrén () and Thomas Andrén ()

No 320, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of being on part-time sick leave compared to full-time sick leave on the probability of recovering (i.e., returning to work with full recovery of lost work capacity). Using a discrete choice one-factor model, we estimate mean treatment parameters and distributional treatment parameters from a common set of structural parameters. Our results show that part-time sick leave increases the likelihood of recovering and dominates full-time sick leave for sickness spells of 150 days or longer. For these long spells, the probability of recovering increases by 10 percentage points.

Keywords: part-time sick leave; selection; unobserved heterogeneity; treatment effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J21 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2008-10-09
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