Arbeitspapier
Sickness Absence and Peer Effects -Evidence from a Swedish Municipality
In this paper we use detailed employment records to study to what extent sickness absence among work group colleagues influences individual sickness absence. Our results indicate an overall positive peer effect. However, further analysis show peer behavior to be important for women's sickness absence, but not for men's, and that woman are only affected by their female co-workers. Our findings also suggest that it, on average, takes two to three years for a new employee to become influenced by the absence pattern of the work group. In light of our results, we cannot rule out the possibility of social norms being important to the individual sick leave decision.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 11/2007
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Subject
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Peer effects
sickness absence
social norms
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bokenblom, Mattias
Ekblad, Kristin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Örebro University School of Business
- (where)
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Örebro
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bokenblom, Mattias
- Ekblad, Kristin
- Örebro University School of Business
Time of origin
- 2008
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