Identifying labour market pathways after a 30-day-long sickness absence -a three-year sequence analysis study in Finland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Return-to-work (RTW) process often includes many phases. Still, multi-state analyses that follow relevant labour market states after a long-term sickness absence (LTSA), and include a comprehensive set of covariates, are scarce. The goal of this study was to follow employment, unemployment, sickness absence, rehabilitation, and disability pension spells using sequence analysis among all-cause LTSA absentees.

Methods

Register data covered full-time and partial sickness allowance, rehabilitation, employment, unemployment benefits, and permanent and temporary disability pension (DP), retrieved for a 30% representative random sample of Finnish 18-59 years old persons with a LTSA in 2016 (N = 25,194). LTSA was defined as a ≥ 30-day-long full-time sickness absence spell

SUBMITTER: Perhoniemi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10245454 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature