The Importance of Sickness Benefits Rights for a Comparison of Wages

Jan Selén and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg ()
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Jan Selén: Trade Union Institute for Economic Research (FIEF), Postal: Stockholm, Sweden
Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Postal: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

No 1/2002, Working Paper Series from Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research

Abstract: In a total wage concept we include fringe benefits and earnings-related insurance rights, in addition to money wage. Sickness benefit rights are an important part of insurance rights in many industrial countries. In this paper we analyse sickness benefit insurance rights and estimate their importance compared to money wage, as well as for wage differentials and wage dispersion for Sweden. The estimation of money value for the sickness benefit rights requires data on absences due to sickness, data not readily available since the first part of a sickness period is handled by the employer. Data from registers and interview data from different surveys are combined in order to describe sickness behaviour and sickness remuneration of different occupational groups.

Keywords: Absenteeism; Non-wage benefits; Occupational insurance; Social insurance; Sickness benefit insurance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J32 J33 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2001-06-01
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