SICKNESS A BSENCE: AN I NTERNATIONAL COMPARISON*

By T. Barmby, M. Ercolani, J. Treble. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort (2003, background): “By international comparison Swiss absenteeism rates are indeed very low: Barmby et al. (2002) compare absence rates for 9 European countries: Swiss workers are the least likely to miss work.”
Are workers with a long commute less productive? An empirical analysis of absenteeism (2011, background): “We include a large number of (time-varying) explanatory variables including commuting distance, year dummies, annual working hours, presence of children, wage,12 region dummies, firm size and industry dummies (see also Barmby et al., 1991; Barmby, 2002, and Barmby et al., 2002).”
Childcare involvement, job characteristics, gender and work attitudes as predictors of emotional exhaustion and sickness absence (2005, background): “Also, in international studies on 10 European countries and the USA (Bliksvar & Helliesen, 1997 ) and eight European countries and Canada (Barmby, Ercolani, & Treble, 2000 ), respectively, higher rates of female sickness absence were found except in Luxembourg and Spain where, interestingly, women”
Worker Absence and Shirking: Evidence from Matched Teacher-School Data, Labour Economics Research Group (LERG) Discussion Paper Series, June 2005 (2007, methodology): “For instance, Barmby et al (2002) demonstrate for nine industrialised countries that a signi cant proportion of work hours are lost through absence, ranging from 1.8% to 6% of average weekly hours for Switerzerland and Sweden, respectively.”