How are work-related characteristics linked to sickness absence and presenteeism? - Theory and data


Arnold, Daniel ; De Pinto, Marco


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URL: https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/40134
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-401341
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2015
The title of a journal, publication series: ZEW Discussion Papers
Volume: 15-077
Place of publication: Mannheim
Publication language: English
Institution: Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: J22 , J28 , I1 , M50,
Keywords (English): Sickness absence , presenteeism , annual duration , workrelated characteristics , health at work
Abstract: This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases presenteeism (or vice versa). We set up a theoretical model in which work-related characteristics not only affect a orker's absence decision but also the individual-specific sickness definition. Since workrelated factors affect presenteeism through these two channels, onsubstitutive relationships between absence and presenteeism are also conceivable. Using European cross-sectional data, we find only few substitutive and complementary relationships, while the bulk of the work-related characteristics is related only to one of the two sickness states.

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