Studies of sick-pay and absenteeism have traditionally treated absence as a worker-related phenomenon. There are good reasons to suppose, though, that firms' incentives to control absenteeism are not uniform. Using an employee/employer-matched data set, we investigate the relationship between...

We present results of a negative binomial model on the determinants of the number of days of absence in a given year for a sample of 2049 workers drawn from three factories. We find evidence of the terms of the remuneration contract being important and we offer an interpretation of the...

Absence rates are higher in large firms. This relationship between absence and firm size could possibly be explained if large firms had smaller unit cost of absence. We show, extending a method used by Weiss, that multiple-line firms can be more efficient in insuring against absence through...