Sickness insurance and spousal labour supply
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☆ Part of this work was completed while visiting the D University. Financial support from the Jan Wallander Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. ☆☆ The authors are grateful for comments by Peter Fred Ichino, Ethan Kaplan, Rafael Lalive, Erik Lindqvist, Må Pettersson-Lidbom, Emilia Simeonova, Helena Svaleryd a pants at the 2009 SUDSWEc conference inUppsala.We als ceptional research assistance. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +46 8 665 45 00. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Olsso (P. Skogman Thoursie).
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