Sick listing—Partly a family phenomenon?

Fredrik W. Andersson, Mattias Bokenblom, Staffan Brantingson, Susanne Gullberg Brännström and Johan Wall

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2011, vol. 40, issue 5, 496-502

Abstract: Being sick listed is not always identical to being ill; it is rather a behaviour associated with illness. In this paper we have analysed whether there is a higher risk of becoming sick listed if a family member has been sick listed earlier—partly a family phenomenon. This aspect of sick listing has never been investigated before. Our results indicate that an individual's risk of being sick listed in 2007 was higher if he/she had family members who had been sick listed in 2006. This may be a sign for an existing “sick listing culture”—social norms within families.

Keywords: Sick listing; Social norms; Family members; Family phenomenon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.12.007

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