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The influence of changes in the sickness insurance system on employment in the Moravian regions of the Czech Republic

KOŠTUŘÍKOVÁ, Ivana

Basic information

Original name

The influence of changes in the sickness insurance system on employment in the Moravian regions of the Czech Republic

Authors

KOŠTUŘÍKOVÁ, Ivana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Karviná, Economic Policy in the European Union Member Countries, p. 421-430, 10 pp. 2018

Publisher

SU OPF v Karviné

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

50206 Finance

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

storage medium (CD, DVD, flash disk)

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19520/18:00011063

Organization unit

School of Business Administration in Karvina

ISBN

978-80-7510-289-8

Keywords in English

Social security system; Sickness insurance; Sickness benefits; Employee; Temporary incapacity for work
Changed: 21/11/2019 15:04, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

The aim of this paper is to give an idea of sickness insurance, especially of the influence of legal regulation changes in the system of this insurance on employees focusing on the Moravian regions of the Czech Republic. The impact of changes in sickness insurance is presented by selected indicators of the temporary incapacity for work using regression analysis to estimate the development of individual indicators in the following years based on knowledge of the development of indicators in the years 2000-2017. The research results is captured using trend line which will display the possible development based on the data in the Moravian regions of the Czech Republic in the following years. Regression equation presents an approximation of the entered values where the coefficients are determined by the method of least squares, so that the sum of squared deviations of the original values from obtained model would be minimum. The R2 index expresses the degree of reliability of the calculated estimate of the development. It was found that legislative changes in the sickness insurance influenced significantly the development of all indicators of the temporary incapacity for work in each regions.