摘要:We show that recent attempts to reorganise and cut costs in the Norwegian health care and
social services sectors have had the unintended side effects of raising the level of sickness absence
and disability among the employees, and that these effects have persisted several years
after completion of the reorganisation processes. Since a substantial proportion of the resulting
costs are external to the decision-makers, we suspect that the pace of change may have
been excessively high. Changes that were efficient from each service provider’s point of view
may have been inefficient from a social and a public-finance point of view.