STICERD Work in Progress Seminars
Absenteeism and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Firms
Giulia Zane (STICERD, LSE)
Friday 06 March 2015 13:00 - 14:00
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About this event
High absence rates are an important issue for formal manufacturing firms in India. Every year, almost 9% of working days are lost because of worker absence. The objective of this work is to estimate the impact of absenteeism on firms' productivity. I exploit the fact that workers are more likely to be absent if they have a better outside option in the agricultural sector. In particular, shocks to agricultural productivity (such as rainfall and temperature) provide a source of exogenous variation that can be used to estimate the causal effect of absenteeism on productivity.
STICERD Work in Progress seminars are held on Fridays in term time at 13:00-14:00, ONLINE, unless specified otherwise.
Seminar organisers: Philip Barteska and Alix Bonargent
For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.
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