Intergenerational transmission of long-term sick leave

Malin Josephson (), Nina Karnehed (), Erica Lindahl () and Helena Persson ()
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Malin Josephson: The Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF), Postal: Sweden
Nina Karnehed: The Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF), Postal: Sweden
Erica Lindahl: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Helena Persson: The Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF), Postal: Sweden

No 2013:19, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of intergenerational transmission of sick leave using universal Swedish register data on the rate of sickness benefits. We find that there is a positive correlation between parents’ and their children’s sick leave. The child–parent correlation is of about the same magnitude irrespective of the gender of the parent and the child, but it is larger the more sick leave the parent had when observed. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between the sick leave level of the children and that of the parents-in-law, implying that persons tend to live with a partner whose sick leave resembles that of their parents. Finally, a comparison between siblings of different birth order shows that firstborn daughters report fewer spells of sick leave than their younger siblings of the same gender. This gap only emerges in the group of daughters with parents who lack sick leave themselves, suggesting that the birth-order effect is only of importance among women with low levels of sick leave.

Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; sickness absence; sickness benefits; disability pension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I14 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2013-09-17
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