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Sickness absence: An international comparison

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Tim Barmby

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Abstract

This paper shows how internationally and intertemporally consistent information on sickness absence can be constructed from Labour Force Surveys, and describes some important features of data that we have generated using the Luxembourg Employment Study. We also analyse sickness absence rates by age, gender and other socio-economic characteristics of workers. These relationships prove to be similar across countries with widely differing mean rates of absence. In this dataset, workers with longer tenure tend to have higher absence rates even when age is controlled for. Absence is also positively correlated with higher usual hours of work.

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Author(s): Barmby TA, Ercolani MG, Treble JG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Economic Journal

Year: 2002

Volume: 112

Issue: 480

Pages: F315-F331

ISSN (print): 0013-0133

ISSN (electronic): 1468-0297

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00046

DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00046

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