Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2284
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Year of Publication: 
1999
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[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1999
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Kiel Working Paper No. 935
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Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Sickness benefit ineome reduces an employee's opportunity costs of absence from work. In the Federal Republic of Germany the institutional arrangement was changed several times during the 1951-1998 period. This paper investigates the effects on sick leave behavior. According to the empirical analysis, moral hazard is a serious problem in Germany. The paper discusses some institutional changes which would significantly reduce moral hazard.
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I18
I38
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Working Paper
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