Work Absence in Europe /

Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms, with i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bonato, Leo
Other Authors: Lusinyan, Lusine
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/193
Online Access:Full text available on IMF