Valuing productivity loss due to absenteeism: firm-level evidence from a Canadian linked employer-employee survey

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Table 4 Parameter estimates for the complete model

	Production	P value	Wage	P value
Baseline controls^a
Log (total no. of employees)	0.94 (0.02)***	<0.001	1.04 (0.01)***	<0.001
Log (capital)	0.04 (0.01)***	<0.001	0.05 (0.01)***	<0.001
Attendance rate, non-team workers	0.37 (0.12)***	0.002	0.38 (0.07)***	<0.001
Attendance rate, team workers	2.78 (1.44)*	0.054	1.83 (0.84)**	0.029
Team	0.75 (0.17)***	<0.001	0.45 (0.08)***	<0.001
Difference in attendance coefficients, non-team workers	−0.01 (0.10)	0.876
Difference in attendance coefficients, team workers	0.95 (0.95)	0.318
Difference in team coefficients	0.30 (0.12)**	0.011
All controls^b
Log (total no. of employees)	0.95 (0.02)***	<0.001	1.08 (0.01)***	<0.001
Log (capital)	0.00 (0.01)	0.935	−0.03 (0.01)***	0.002
Attendance rate, non-team workers	0.43 (0.13)***	<0.001	0.45 (0.07)***	<0.001
Attendance rate, team workers	2.38 (1.40)*	0.090	1.43 (0.75)*	0.058
Team	0.32 (0.12)**	0.012	0.10 (0.05)**	0.041
Difference in attendance coefficients, non-team workers	−0.02 (0.10)	0.816
Difference in attendance coefficients, team workers	0.95 (1.00)	0.341
Difference in team coefficients	0.21 (0.10)**	0.030

^aModel adjusted for employment, capital stock, and years
^bAdjusted for employment, capital stock, occupation, age, sex, education, race, immigrant, bargaining agreement, international market, foreign owned, region, industry and year; Standard error in the bracket; ^*** p ≤ 0.01; ^**0.01 < p ≤ 0.05; ^*0.05 < p ≤ 0.1

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