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Employee Absence : An Organizational Perspective

Eskildsen, Jacob - 2018

We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...

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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence

Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan - 2022

We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...

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The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from Unplanned Absences

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2017

Caseworkers are the main human resource used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...

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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence : Evidence from Sweden

Cattan, Sarah - 2017

Instructional time is seen as an important determinant of school performance, but little is known about the effects of student absence. Combining historical records and administrative data for Swedish individuals born in the 1930s, we examine the impacts of absence in elementary school on...

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Activation Against Absenteeism : Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway

Hernaes, Oeystein - 2017

-hours lost due to absenteeism by 12 % in the reform region compared to a comparison unit created by a weighted average of similar …

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Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

Lundberg, Shelly - 2017

The educational attainment of young women now exceeds that of young men in most of the developed world, and women account for about 60% of new four-year college graduates in the United States. Several studies have suggested that the increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the...

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Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2018

determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …

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The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity : New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Grinza, Elena - 2018

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

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Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Gershenson, Seth - 2018

Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those average effects vary by student, school, and absence type. This paper enhances our understanding...

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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Biørn, Erik - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts ﾖ with weaker work-norms ﾖ into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health; on …

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