New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

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Are workers with a long commute less productive? An empirical analysis of absenteeism (2011, background): “To use worker fixed effects is recommended in the absenteeism literature to deal with workers' unobserved heterogeneity (Dionne and Dostie, 2007).10 To use job and residence fixed effects is not standard, but is useful as explained later on to use variation in commuting distance that is due to…”
Transformational and passive avoidant leadership as determinants of absenteeism (2012, background): “This includes variables long believed to be related to absenteeism, such as pay, satisfaction with co-workers, promotion opportunities (Hackett, 1989), stress level (Allebeck and Mastekaasa, 2004), and more recently, the existence of an “absence culture” (Rentsch and Steel, 2003), the effects of hig”
How Effective Is Telecommuting? Assessing the Status of Our Scientific Findings (2015, background): “Two studies based on large databases with objective absenteeism measures found that telecommuting relates to reduced absenteeism even when controlling for several firm characteristics (Dionne & Dostie, 2007; Stavrou, 2005).”
A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs (2010, background): “Workplace conditions are relevant,(Dionne and Dostie, 2007) as are probation periods and economic upswings or downturns (Ichino and Riphahn, 2005; Askildsen et al., 2005).”