Abstract
We present a model showing that firms with interdependent worker productivity (team production) have a higher cost of absence and as a consequence will spend additional resources on monitoring absence. As a result, firms with team production should have lower absence rates, all else equal. Using the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (UK), we are the first to estimate each of these related associations showing that absence has a greater cost in the face of team production, that firms with team production engage in greater monitoring and that firms with team production have reduced absence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 676-690 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2008 |
Funding
sThe authors are grateful to two referees, seminar participants at the Centre for European Economic Research, the University of Vienna and the 2006 ACES Conference in Chicago for their helpful comments. Thanks are also expressed for financial support to the Center for Research on International Economics and the International Scholar Program at UWM and to the Center for Public Policy Studies at Lingnan University.
Keywords
- Absence
- Monitoring
- Team production
- Teams