Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130376
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9692
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether interventions by (i) medical doctors and (ii) occupational specialists are effective in reducing sick leave durations among self-employed workers. To this end, we exploit unique administrative data comprising all sick leave claims by self-employed workers insured with the major Dutch private insurer between January 2009 and March 2014. We estimate a multivariate duration model dealing with non-random selection into the two intervention types by controlling for observable and unobservable claimant characteristics. We find adverse treatment effects for both interventions, which are heterogeneous by the physical toughness of the claimants' occupation.
Subjects: 
sickness absenteeism
self-employment
medical interventions
dynamic treatment effects
JEL: 
C41
I13
J22
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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