Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170975 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10991
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
I evaluate a program aimed at strictly enforcing a requirement that people on long-term sick leave be partly back at work unless explicitly defined as an exception. Employing the synthetic control method, I find that the reform reduced work-hours lost due to absenteeism by 12 % in the reform region compared to a comparison unit created by a weighted average of similar regions. The effect is driven by both increased part-time presence of temporary disabled workers and accelerated recovery. Musculoskeletal disorders was the diagnosis group declining the most. The findings imply large savings in social security expenditures.
Subjects: 
absenteeism
disability
activation
forkfare
JEL: 
I18
I38
J48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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