Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44204 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5091
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
sickness absence
endogenous selection
multicollinearity
fixed effects logit
JEL: 
C23
C25
I38
J22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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