The Effect of Health Care Expenditure on Sickness Absence

David Granlund ()
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David Granlund: The Swedish Retail Institute (HUI), Postal: Regeringsgatan 60, 103 29 Stockholm, Sweden

No 27, HUI Working Papers from HUI Research

Abstract: Increased health care expenditure could be used to improve quality of care or reduce waiting time and could therefore be expected to affect the health and sickness absence of a population. Still, based on data from a panel of Swedish municipalities, public health care expenditure was found to have no, or only a negligible effect on absence due to sickness or disability. The same result was obtained when separate estimates were done for men and women and for absence due to sickness and disability.

Keywords: Health care expenditure; Sick leave; Worker absenteeism; Dynamic panel data models; Endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2010-02-01
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Published as Granlund, David, 'The Effect of Health Care Expenditure on Sickness Absence' in The European Journal of Health Economics , 2010, pages 555-568.

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