SICK PAY INSURANCE AND SICKNESS ABSENCE: SOME EUROPEAN CROSS‐COUNTRY OBSERVATIONS AND A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH

All European countries have some form of compulsory insurance against the loss of income due to temporary disability. The insurance schemes vary widely between countries both in terms of measurable entities (such as the compensation level) as well as in unmeasurable traits concerning the actual implementation of the programs. In this paper we use European Labour Force Survey data to study how the measurable differences in the programs is...