Essays on measuring and valuing productivity loss due to poor health

Traditionally, productivity loss has been measured according to illness-related absence from work (absenteeism) only. However, there is increasing evidence that presenteeism (reduced intensity and/or quality of labour input) is an even greater source of productivity losses. In addition to empirical...

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Main Author: Zhang, Wei
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44814