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agents, ergonomics, working time, violence) and outcomes (injuries, illnesses, absenteeism, job satisfaction) within … workplaces. Third, it explores the implications of the lack of OSH in terms of the economic and social costs that are entailed … improve the health and safety of workers. -- Health ; safety ; indicators ; accidents ; diseases ; absenteeism …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
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Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic …
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Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....
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, absenteeism causes sizeable output losses. Using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), this paper investigates …
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In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping...
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mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures - absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity …, job conditions are related to both presenteeism and absenteeism even after accounting for workers' self-reported mental … in good rather than poor mental health. The effects of job complexity and stress on absenteeism do not depend on workers …
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Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We analyze employees from a selection of workplaces from The Bullying Cohort Study conducted in Denmark in...
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We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work on the employee's effort. In contrast, a model of worker morale that is consistent with a widely...
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-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …
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