Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J.; … - 2009
Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence …. The analysis is based on a novel concept of a worker's steady state sickness absence propensity, computed from a … conclusions are i) that most of the cross-sectional variation in absenteeism is caused by genuine employee heterogeneity; ii) that …