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Incentives and Selection in Cyclical Absenteeism

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Arai, Mahmood (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research)
Skogman Thoursie, Peter (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research)

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Abstract

Procyclical absenteeism might be due to higher sick-rates of marginal workers, or a consequence of procyclical sick-report incentives. These hypotheses predict opposite signs for the correlation between sick-rates and shares of temporary contracts. This is the case, when the share of temporary contracts is a proxy for the share of marginal workers, and an indicator of stronger incentives for job presence of temporary employees who have generally weaker job security than those on permanent contracts. Using industry-region panel data, we find a stable negative correlation between sick-rates and shares of temporary contracts implying that procyclical sick-rate is compatible with the idea that sick-report incentives are procyclical.

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Paper provided by Trade Union Institute for Economic Research in its series Working Paper Series with number 167.

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Date of creation: 05 Mar 2001
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Publication status: Forthcoming in Labour Economics.
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Keywords: Absenteeism; Temporary Employment;

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