We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers’ tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The … beneficial for productivity in contexts characterized by a certain degree of routineness and lower job complexity. Along the same …

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The … beneficial for productivity in contexts characterized by a certain degree of routineness and lower job complexity. Along the same …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …