Female Workers on Long‐term Sickness Benefit in the Republic of Ireland

This article investigates the extent to which the entry of female workers into long‐term receipt of sickness benefit is related not only to their health status but also to the experience of women in the labour market. It is argued that specific categories of female workers–women with children, women who enter sickness benefit from maternity or unemployment benefit or who live in areas of high female unemployment–have an incentive to remain on sickness benefit long‐term. This is supported by a logistic regression analysis on a random sample (n D1142) of individual social security sickness benefit claimants in the Republic of Ireland. The results can be used to understand how married, compared to single, women can come to be overrepresented among those on long‐term sickness benefit

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Logistic regression · Political science · Receipt · Relevance (law · Social security · Term (time · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Workplace Health and Well-being

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