Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of wage dispersion on sickness absenteeism observed in Belgian firms. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use detailed linked employer-employee panel data for the period 1999-2006 that allow the authors to compute a...

Purpose – The paper aims to introduce the special issue of IJM , a collection of papers that were originally presented at the 88 th Applied Econometrics Association Conference. Design/methodology/approach – Provides a general outline of the focus of the issue. Findings – The conference...