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TY - JOUR
T1 - Timing matters
T2 - worker absenteeism in a weekly backward rotating shift model
AU - Frick, Bernd
AU - Simmons, Robert
AU - Stein, Friedrich
N1 - The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01232-6
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - ObjectivesWe analyze the impact of the positioning of shifts (morning, afternoon, night) on worker absenteeism in a large German automobile plant.MethodsUsing a completely balanced panel of 153 organizational units over the 2-year-period 2009 to 2010 (i.e. 104 consecutive weeks with 15,912 unit-week-observations) we estimate a series of GLM and Fixed Effects models.ResultsOur main finding is that during afternoon shifts absence rates are significantly higher than during either morning or night shifts and that absence rates are particularly high during the afternoon shift immediately following the 3 weeks of consecutive night shifts. We attribute our first finding to the “social opportunity costs” of working and the second one to a “tax evasion effect”.ConclusionsWhen designing new shift models, firms should try to anticipate their workers’ reaction to avoid unintended incentives.
AB - ObjectivesWe analyze the impact of the positioning of shifts (morning, afternoon, night) on worker absenteeism in a large German automobile plant.MethodsUsing a completely balanced panel of 153 organizational units over the 2-year-period 2009 to 2010 (i.e. 104 consecutive weeks with 15,912 unit-week-observations) we estimate a series of GLM and Fixed Effects models.ResultsOur main finding is that during afternoon shifts absence rates are significantly higher than during either morning or night shifts and that absence rates are particularly high during the afternoon shift immediately following the 3 weeks of consecutive night shifts. We attribute our first finding to the “social opportunity costs” of working and the second one to a “tax evasion effect”.ConclusionsWhen designing new shift models, firms should try to anticipate their workers’ reaction to avoid unintended incentives.
U2 - 10.1007/s10198-020-01232-6
DO - 10.1007/s10198-020-01232-6
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 1399
EP - 1410
JO - European Journal of Health Economics
JF - European Journal of Health Economics
SN - 1618-7598
IS - 9
ER -