Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
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 workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
