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Female Workers on Long‐term Sickness Benefit in the Republic of Ireland: The Relevance of their Relationship with the Labour Market
Author(s) -
O’Leary Richard
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9515.00101
Subject(s) - receipt , unemployment , incentive , social security , demographic economics , logistic regression , term (time) , relevance (law) , economics , medicine , economic growth , political science , physics , accounting , quantum mechanics , law , market economy , microeconomics
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.