Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34763 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3672
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but also workplace conditions and macro level factors. Using register based information on 100,000 individuals for the period 1992-2001, we find large differences in sickness absence between natives and several immigrant groups and that these differences persist after controlling for human capital, workplace factors, and macro economic factors.
Subjects: 
Immigration
health
sickness benefits
labour market
integration
JEL: 
J15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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