Petri Böckerman, Ohto Kanninen, and Ilpo Suoniemi, "A Kink that
Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence", Journal
of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2018, pp. 568-579.

The data used in this study are confidential and the property of the
Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Finland) who do not permit
open access. For this reason, the data cannot be lodged here. However,
other researchers can independently obtain access to it for
replication purposes by permission from the Social Insurance
Institution of Finland.

To obtain access to the data, please contact the Social Insurance
Institution of Finland, P.O. Box 450 FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland. The
specific instructions to obtain access to the data are available at
http://www.kela.fi/web/en/research-data-requests

The authors will provide guidance about acquiring the data upon
request.

The computer programs to generate the results of the study for
replication purposes from the original data files provided by the
Social Insurance Institution of Finland are available from Ohto
Kanninen. The authors will provide guidance about the implementation
of the programs.

Please address any questions to:

Petri Böckerman, E-mail: petri.bockerman [AT] labour.fi
Ohto Kanninen, E-mail: ohto.kanninen [AT] labour.fi
Ilpo Suoniemi, E-mail: ilpo.suoniemi [AT] labour.fi