An empirical study of absence rates : labour-leisure choice, work discipline and workgroup norms /

Explains voluntary absence behaviour by using a cross-national data set for predicting self-respected employee absence rates. Provides a basis for efficiency wage theory and concludes that wage effects on absence are too small to warrant wage increases for the sole purpose of reducing absence.

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Main Author: Drago, Robert
Corporate Author: National Institute of Labour Studies (Australia)
Other Authors: Wooden, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Bedford Park, S. Aust.] : National Institute of Labour Studies, 1988.
Series:Working paper series (National Institute of Labour Studies (Australia)) ; no. 103.
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Summary:Explains voluntary absence behaviour by using a cross-national data set for predicting self-respected employee absence rates. Provides a basis for efficiency wage theory and concludes that wage effects on absence are too small to warrant wage increases for the sole purpose of reducing absence.
Item Description:Cover title: Labour absence.
Physical Description:38 p. ; 30 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 34-38.
ISBN:0725804114
ISSN:1032-0806 ;