Sickness absence between Nordic countries varies substantially. While Norway and Sweden have high sickness absence compared with other countries in Europe, absence due to sickness in Finland, Iceland and Denmark is relatively ...

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ...

A national labour and welfare administration reform (NAV reform) is evaluated on employment outcomes and use of social insurance and assistance schemes. The reform was implemented step-wise over time during 2006—2010 at ...

In many Western societies, the aging of the population puts a strain on health care service delivery and financing. In particular, demand for specialist services attracts attention, as these services are the most costly. ...

Befolkningsutviklingen tilsier at det i årene framover vil bli flere eldre med behov for hjelp. Det er stilt spørsmål ved om kommunesektoren vil makte å skaffe nok ressurser til eldreomsorgen, gitt de omsorgsbehovene vi ...

This paper presents a new way to monitor priority settings in public health care systems. We take departure in medical guidelines prescribing acceptable waiting times for different medical descriptions. Allocating ICD10 ...

This paper aims at shedding light on the social gradient by studying the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and provision of health care. Using administrative data on services provided by General Practitioners ...

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched ...