The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss
the relevance of government expenditure except for unemployment compensation. Our …

This study investigates the determinants of absenteeism in a large Danish municipality.
Based on a review of the literature on absence, an integrative model is developed …

This workplace flexibility study uses primary data on private sector small and medium‐sized
enterprises () in ancashire, nited ingdom, collected in 2009 during the recent “credit crunch” …

Using micro‐data from the E uropean U nion's L abour F orce S urvey for 28 countries this
study investigates the incidence and intensity of individuals' sickness‐absence behavior …

Work absence is a part of an individual's decision concerning hours worked. This paper
focuses on sickness absence in Europe and builds on an analytical framework in which …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of performance evaluation of leadership quality on leader
sickness absence. While previous research has focused on how evaluation of leadership …

Keren Smedley and Helen Whitten's Age Matters provides a comprehensive, innovative and
positive approach to recent changes in the regulations and in demography. The authors …

After the 2006 elections, a bourgeois government came to power in Sweden. This article
argues that the popularity of the 'universal'Swedish welfare state has led the dominant …

Over the last decade, the UK has experienced unprecedented increases in migration
associated with the 2004 A8 expansion of the European Union. These migrant workers have …