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Most people consider their own health and that of their close relatives and friends to be the most important thing in life. From an economic perspective, illness and ill health might entail that the individual has a reduced working capacity and a loss of income while, at the same time, society has higher direct costs for social insurance, medical care and rehabilitation, as well as indirect costs for lower production of goods and services.
Today, a relatively large part of the labour force is outside the labour market due to reduced work capacity. Promoting good health and counteracting ill health in the population of working age is thus of great importance for both the individual and in order to meet the financial challenges that the welfare system is facing.
An increase in the knowledge of the connections between health and the labour market situation increases the possibility for society of earlier identifying groups that run the risk of being subjected to health problems and also designing measures and thus strengthening the possibilities for exposed groups on the labour market. For some of those who are already outside the labour market due to an inability to work, different kinds of rehabilitation targeting a return to working life might be required in order to make a return to the labour market possible.
Our research on health and rehabilitation concerns among other things:
-how unemployment and sickness absence might affect health and well-being among individuals and their family members.
-how long sickness periods can be avoided by rehabilitation targeting professional life.
-how individuals’ health affects labour force participation both among themselves and their families.
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Förlorad tid eller förberedelser för integration?
Mattias Engdahl Olof Rosenqvist Olof Åslund
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Kvinnors hälsa, sjukfrånvaro och inkomster efter barnafödande
Emma Fransson Erik Grönqvist Stavros Iliadis Erica Lindahl
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Barn och unga under coronapandemin
Mattias Engdahl Caroline Hall Helena Holmlund Martin Lundin Hanna Mühlrad Anna Sjögren Björn Öckert
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Hälsoeffekter av arbetsmarknadspolitiska insatser
Marco Caliendo Robert Mahlstedt Gerard J. van den Berg Johan Vikström
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Arbete, familj och kvinnors hälsa senare i livet.
Tabea Bucher-Koenen Helmut Farbmacher Raphael Gruber Johan Vikström
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Hur påverkas vuxna barn av att ha en åldrande förälder?
Anna Norén
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Limbo or leverage? Asylum waiting and refugee integration
Mattias Engdahl Olof Rosenqvist Olof Åslund
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Swedish children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mattias Engdahl Caroline Hall Helena Holmlund Martin Lundin Hanna Mühlrad Anna Sjögren Björn Öckert
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Side effects of labor market policies
Marco Caliendo Robert Mahlstedt Gerard J. van den Berg Johan Vikström
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Double trouble: The burden of child rearing and working on maternal mortality
Tabea Bucher-Koenen Helmut Farbmacher Raphael Gruber Johan Vikström
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Sick of my parents? Consequences of parental ill health on adult children
Anna Norén
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Parental job loss and child human capital in the short and long run
Eva Mörk Anna Sjögren Helena Svaleryd
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Arbetskraftsbrist inom vården och vårdens kvalitet: Effekter av arbetskraftsmigration bland vårdpersonal
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Social assistance and family welfare
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How firms of different sizes respond to a more generous insurance for high sick-pay costs
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The impact of policies for youth with reduced work capacity in Sweden and Norway
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Who overuses sickness insurance? Evidence from a randomised experiment
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Labour market returns to private rehabilitation