Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81344 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 840
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it possible to capture a number of real-world phenomena that are not easily captured in binary models. In particular, moral hazard is not regarded as outright fraud, but as a gradual adjustment of the willingness to go to work when income insurance is available. Further, the model can easily encompass phenomena such as administrative rejection of claims and the role of social norms. It also gives a rich view of the desirability of insurance in the first place.
Subjects: 
Moral hazard
Disability insurance
Sick pay
Work absence
Social norms
JEL: 
G22
H53
I38
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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