| dc.contributor.author | Palmer, Edward | swe |
| dc.contributor.author | Andrén, Daniela | swe |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-12-07 | swe |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-02-09T11:16:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-02-09T11:16:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | swe |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1403-2465 | swe |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/2898 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The question addressed in this paper is whether sickness history affects annual earnings
and hourly wages in Sweden. If poor health makes people less productive, we expect to
find a negative effect of previous health history on hourly wages. If, instead, poor health
reduces people™s working capacity, but not their productivity, this implies only a
decrease in hours worked. Using a longitudinal database for individual sickness, we
estimate both (annual) earnings and (hourly) wage equations, and find that people who
are healthy in the current year, but have long-term sickness in the previous five years
have lower earnings than persons without long-term sickness. | swe |
| dc.format.extent | 35 pages | swe |
| dc.format.extent | 327320 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | swe |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economics, nr 45 | swe |
| dc.subject | human capital model; age-earnings profiles; earnings; wage equations | swe |
| dc.subject | sickness spells; health variables | swe |
| dc.title | THE EFFECT OF SICKNESS ON EARNINGS | swe |
| dc.type.svep | Report | swe |
| dc.contributor.department | Department of Economics | swe |
| dc.gup.origin | Göteborg University. School of Business, Economics and Law | swe |
| dc.gup.epcid | 2222 | swe |
| dc.subject.svep | Economics | swe |
