The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Employer–Employee Panel Data
Using rich longitudinal matched employer–employee data for Belgium, we provide a first investigation of the impact of sickness absenteeism on firms’ productivity. To do so, we estimate a production function augmented with a firm‐level measure of sickness absenteeism that we constructed from worker‐l...
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Volume: | 59 |
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Main Author: |
Grinza, Elena
Rycx, François |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Zielgruppe: |
Trade |
Place of publication: |
HOBOKEN WILEY 01.01.2020 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
published in: | Industrial relations (Berkeley) Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 150 - 194 |
ORCID: |
0000-0002-8978-634X 0000-0003-0964-0939 |
Data of publication: | January 2020 |
ISSN: |
0019-8676 1468-232X |
EISSN: |
1468-232X |
Discipline: | Economics Law |
Bibliography: |
Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; IZA, Bonn, Germany; Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium; Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium. E‐mail The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy. E‐mail frycx@ulb.ac.be elena.grinza@polito.it We are most grateful to Statistics Belgium for giving us access to the data. We thank the Editor and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. Funding for this research was provided by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), within the IPSWICH and IMMIBEL projects. The usual disclaimer applies. |
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Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2020 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS |