Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
研究了挪威针对长期病假工人的强制性对话会议，发现该会议通过通知和参会效应显著缩短了缺勤时长，且收益远超成本。
We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long‐term sick‐listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of absence; its purpose is to bring together the absentee, the employer and the family physician to discuss whether arrangements can be made to facilitate partial or full work resumption. Our causal analysis is based on random‐assignment‐like geographical variation in the meeting propensity. We find that the meetings reduce absence duration considerably, both through a notification and an attendance effect. Moreover, estimated benefits by far exceed estimated costs.