The rise in absenteeism: Disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time

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We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than aggregate absence rates from 1993 to 2005, debunking the popular hypothesis that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts - with weaker work-norms - into the workforce. We also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health;on the contrary, a massive rise in disability rolls during the 1990's suggest that poor-health workers have left the labor market in unprecedented numbers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5091

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: sickness absence ; endogenous selection ; multicollinearity ; fixed effects logit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Biørn, Erik ; Gaure, Simen ; Markussen, Simen ; Røed, Knut
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44204
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201008116275
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET