presenteeism days, whereas the role of productivity and skills is inconclusive. …Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic … analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between …

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper …

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in … sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior …. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced shirking, increased presenteeism, and the level of overall moral hazard when …

to paid sick leave and (ii) suppressed sick leave ("presenteeism"). Thirty-five percent of US full-time employees lack … presenteeism behavior. These are primarily women with children and low-wage sector jobs. …

prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these … productivity by randomizing the temporal order at which piece-rate workers at a large sugarcane plantation in Nigeria are offered … productivity. Possible mechanisms for this response include selection into higher return occupations as a result of changes in the …

Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being …

domain of presenteeism, i.e. an increase in sick leave (due to reductions in the workers' or the firms' cost share) would …