Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Wei, Xiangdong - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 68 (2008) 3-4, pp. 676-690
We present a model showing that firms with interdependent worker productivity (team production) have a higher cost of absence and as a consequence will spend additional resources on monitoring absence. As a result, firms with team production should have lower absence rates, all else equal. Using...