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Table 5 Parameter estimates for the complete model by firm size

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

 

Small firms

Large firms

Production

P value

Wage

P value

Production

P value

Wage

P value

Baseline controlsa

 Log (total no. of employees)

0.87 (0.03)***

<0.001

1.04 (0.02)***

<0.001

1.07 (0.02)***

<0.001

1.01 (0.02)***

<0.001

 Log (capital)

0.03 (0.01)***

0.005

0.04 (0.01)***

<0.001

0.09 (0.01)***

<0.001

0.08 (0.01)***

<0.001

 Attendance rate, non-team workers

0.39 (0.14)***

0.005

0.36 (0.08)***

<0.001

1.95 (0.80)**

0.015

1.66 (0.58)***

0.004

 Attendance rate, team workers

6.34 (2.25)***

0.005

3.01 (1.03)***

0.004

−0.57 (0.76)

0.449

−0.02 (0.70)

0.974

 Team

0.75 (0.27)***

0.005

0.35 (0.10)***

<0.001

0.71 (0.15)***

<0.001

0.63 (0.12)***

<0.001

 Difference in attendance coefficients, non-team workers

0.04 (0.11)

0.745

  

0.29 (0.36)

0.429

  

 Difference in attendance coefficients, team workers

3.33 (1.59)**

0.036

  

−0.55 (0.70)

0.431

  

 Difference in team coefficients

0.40 (0.21)*

0.056

  

0.08 (0.10)

0.433

  

All controlsb

 Log (total no. of employees)

0.88 (0.03)***

<0.001

1.07 (0.02)***

<0.001

1.10 (0.02)***

<0.001

1.03 (0.02)***

<0.001

 Log (capital)

0.00 (0.02)

0.939

−0.03 (0.01)***

0.006

0.00 (0.01)

0.879

−0.01 (0.01)

0.263

 Attendance rate, non-team workers

0.47 (0.14)***

0.001

0.44 (0.06)***

<0.001

1.32 (0.70)*

0.061

1.08 (0.47)**

0.021

 Attendance rate, team workers

4.97 (1.87)***

0.008

2.25 (0.95)**

0.018

−0.76 (0.73)

0.300

−0.33 (0.64)

0.609

 Team

0.33 (0.18)*

0.073

0.06 (0.06)

0.260

0.19 (0.10)*

0.054

0.09 (0.07)

0.213

 Difference in attendance coefficients, non-team workers

0.03 (0.12)

0.811

  

0.24 (0.37)

0.511

  

 Difference in attendance coefficients, team workers

2.72 (1.49)*

0.068

  

−0.43 (0.72)

0.549

  

 Difference in team coefficients

0.27 (0.16)*

0.091

  

0.10 (0.07)

0.157

  
  1. Small firms are those with less than 20 employees; large firms are the remainder
  2. aModel adjusted for employment, capital stock, and years
  3. 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