TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Markussen, Simen
AU  - Røed, Knut
AU  - Røgeberg, Ole J.
        TI  - The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?
        PY  - 2013/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7122
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7122
        AB  - Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on exogenous shifts of family doctors occurring when physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell their patient lists to other doctors. Our key finding is that family doctors have significant influence on their clients' benefit claims. We conclude that it is possible for family doctors to contain social insurance costs to some extent, and that there is a significant variation across doctors in the way they do so.
        KW  - disability insurance
KW  - absence certification
KW  - gatekeepers
KW  - sick pay
        ER  -