Social Science, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.
Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Health Econ. 2020 May;29(5):554-566. doi: 10.1002/hec.4002. Epub 2020 Jan 28.
To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age-dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme in Norway that reduces the workload of teachers at age 55 but maintains the same wage. Evaluation of this programme is well suited to a difference-in-difference analysis, where the control group is teachers slightly too young to be eligible for the workload reduction. Using full population register data for the period 2006-2013, we analyse the effects of the programme on health as indicated by sickness absence and health care utilization. We find that whereas there is no effect among women, the workload reduction causes a decrease in sickness absence and an improvement in mental health among males. These results, which are robust to a placebo test, to extending the pretreatment period, and to dropping single birth cohorts, are driven by a subgroup of men whose prior health status is poor.
为了让老年员工留在劳动力市场中，引入与年龄相关的工作条件可能是一项政策措施。然而，我们对这些举措的效果知之甚少。我们研究了挪威的一项特别计划的影响，该计划在 55 岁时减少教师的工作量，但保持相同的工资。对该计划的评估非常适合差异分析，其中对照组是稍微年轻一点而没有资格减少工作量的教师。我们使用 2006-2013 年期间的完整人口登记数据，分析了该计划对健康的影响，如病假和医疗保健利用率所示。我们发现，该计划对女性没有影响，但男性的工作量减少导致病假减少和心理健康状况改善。这些结果在安慰剂测试、延长预处理期和删除单个出生队列后仍然成立，其原因是一组先前健康状况不佳的男性。
