Differences in Sickness Allowance Receipt between Swedish Speakers and Finnish Speakers in Finland

Previous research has documented lower disability retirement and mortality rates of Swedish speakers as compared with Finnish speakers in Finland. This paper is the first to compare the two language groups with regard to the receipt of sickness allowance, which is an objective health measure that reflects a less severe poor health condition. Register-based data covering the years 1988-2011 are used. We estimate logistic regression models with generalized estimating equations to account for repeated observations at the individual level. We find that Swedish-speaking men have approximately 30 percent lower odds of receiving sickness allowance than Finnish-speaking men, whereas the difference in women is about 15 percent. In correspondence with previous research on all-cause mortality at working ages, we find no language-group difference in sickness allowance receipt in the socially most successful subgroup of the population.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

• Publication date

  2017-12-15

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.23979/FYPR.66598
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  Semantic Scholar

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