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Sickness absence and works councils: Evidence from German individual and linked employer-employee data

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Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation in the form of works councils on (1) individual sickness absence rates and (2) a subjective measure of personnel problems due to sickness absence as perceived by a firm's management. We find that the existence of a works council is positively correlated with the incidence and the annual duration of absence. We observe a more pronounced correlation in western Germany which can also be interpreted causally. Further, personnel problems due to absence are more likely to occur in plants with a works council.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 691

Classification: Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Personnel Economics: Labor Management

Subject: absenteeism
LIAB
personnel problems
sickness absence
SOEP
works councils

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Arnold, Daniel
Brändle, Tobias
Goerke, Laszlo

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

(where): Berlin

(when): 2014

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103399

Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET

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Arbeitspapier

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Arnold, Daniel
Brändle, Tobias
Goerke, Laszlo
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Time of origin

2014

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