CAN COMPULSORY DIALOGUES NUDGE SICK-LISTED WORKERS BACK TO WORK?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Markussen, Simen; Roed, Knut; Schreiner, Ragnhild C.
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12468
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 1276-1303
• 关键词: labor-market programs; job search; ui system; threat; duration

摘要

We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of absence; its purpose is to bring together the absentee, the employer and the family physician to discuss whether arrangements can be made to facilitate partial or full work resumption. Our causal analysis is based on random-assignment-like geographical variation in the meeting propensity. We find that the meetings reduce absence duration considerably, both through a notification and an attendance effect. Moreover, estimated benefits by far exceed estimated costs.