Having a bad attitude? The relationship between attitudes and sickness absence
| Autor: | Marte Eline Ulvestad, Karen Evelyn Hauge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Cheating J01 J45 Detailed data Norwegian Sickness absence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine I1 Absenteeism 0502 economics and business Health care ddc:330 Economics 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Survey Socioeconomics Norway business.industry I12 05 social sciences Healthcare sector Gender Demographic groups Labor policy. Labor and the state HD7795-8027 language.human_language Attitudes Industrial relations Sick leave language business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-27 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2193-9004 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40173-017-0088-y |
| Popis: | Is sickness absence related to attitudes? Several studies point to attitudes as an important factor for sickness absence. We study the relation between sickness absence and attitudes towards possible reasons for sick leave, towards cheating and towards work, by linking a survey among Norwegian healthcare workers, aimed at identifying attitudes, to detailed data on sickness absence from the employers. We find that there is an association between sickness absence and certain attitudes but mainly for self-certified sick leave. Employees with more lenient attitudes towards sick leave have more self-certified sick leave, but not more GP-certified sick leave. Furthermore, we find no evidence of attitudes being able to explain the persistently observed differences is absenteeism between different demographic groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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