Some proponents of higher minimum wages cite reduced absenteeism as a positive side-effect. However, little evidence on … the relationship between minimum wages and absenteeism exists for the United States. This paper examines the effect of … minimum wages on absenteeism using data from the Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups of the Current Population Survey for the …

minimum wages may cause employers to try to reduce worker absenteeism to reduce costs, but, from a labor supply perspective …, higher minimum wages exert a substitution effect against absenteeism and an income effect towards it. This paper presents new … evidence on the relationship between absenteeism and minimum wages using the limited panel aspect of data from the 1979 …