John Treble recently retired as Professor of Economics at Swansea University. He has previously taught and held visiting posts in the UK, North America, Europe and Australia. His work is mainly in labour economics, with some forays into economic history. Professor Treble was the founder of Britain's national labour economics conference, now called the Work and Pensions Economics Group, and served a full term on the founding Committee of the European Society of Labour Economists.
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Preface
1. Introduction
2. The supply of absence and the provision of sick pay
3. The demand for absence
4. The markets for absence and for sick pay
5. A brief introduction to identification
6. The market for absence: empirical evidence
7. The demand for absence: empirical evidence
Appendix to Chapter 7
8. Policy implications for firms
9. Policy implications for states
10. Conclusion
References
Index.
