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Effects of a free sabbatical year

SND-ID: SND 0834

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Bo Melin - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Lotta Nylén - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences

Rose-Marie Herlin - National Institute for Working Life, Work and Health

Description

From 1 February 2002 until 31 December 2004, a free-year trial was conducted in twelve municipalities in Sweden. Employees could apply for a free sabbatical year (a period between 3 - 12 months), and still get 85% of the compensation they would have received if they were unemployed. Under the same time the person be replaced by an unemployed person that got a temporary employee.

Purpose:

The overall purpose of the study was to examine different aspects of health among individuals who were sabbatical leave, and among those who were substitutes.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Karolinska Institutet

Responsible department/unit

Work and Health

Funding

  • Funding agency: Näringsdepartementet
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Probability

Time period(s) investigated

2003-01-01 – 2005-01-01

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

HEALTH, General health and well-being, Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

income, work, workplace, health, sick leave, stress, psychological, quality of life, occupational life, well-being, sabbatical leave

Publications
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Dataset 1
Effects of a free sabbatical year - Respondents on sabbatical year

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Citation

Bo Melin, Lotta Nylén, Rose-Marie Herlin. Karolinska Institutet (2013). Effects of a free sabbatical year - Respondents on sabbatical year. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/001618

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Bo Melin - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Lotta Nylén - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences

Rose-Marie Herlin - National Institute for Working Life, Work and Health

Data collection

  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2003-01-01–2005-01-01
  • Source of the data: Population group
Dataset 2
Effects of a sabbatical year - Substitutes

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Citation

Bo Melin, Lotta Nylén, Rose-Marie Herlin. Karolinska Institutet (2013). Effects of a sabbatical year - Substitutes. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/001619

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Bo Melin - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Lotta Nylén - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences

Rose-Marie Herlin - National Institute for Working Life, Work and Health

Data collection

  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2003-01-01–2005-01-01
  • Source of the data: Population group
Dataset 3
Effects of a free sabbatical year - Applied for sabbatical year but not granted

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Citation

Bo Melin, Lotta Nylén, Rose-Marie Herlin. Karolinska Institutet (2013). Effects of a free sabbatical year - Applied for sabbatical year but not granted. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/001621

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Bo Melin - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Lotta Nylén - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences

Rose-Marie Herlin - National Institute for Working Life, Work and Health

Data collection

  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2003-01-01–2005-01-01
  • Source of the data: Population group
Published: 2013-12-13
Last updated: 2020-01-23