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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Sick leave"”.
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Return to work following a sick leave
… welcome their employees' returning to work after sick leave. Employee's sick leave is an unavoidable part of organizations, but the scope of how Icelandic organizations welcome their employees back is relatively unknown. The research used a qualitative method to gather data where organizations and …
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Essays on Paid Sick Leave in the United States
… estimates the causal effect of access to paid sick leave on worker mobility, by exploiting variation in the implementation of local paid sick leave mandates over time in the U.S. I use May 2004 - June 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) basic monthly data, and by taking a …
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Utilization of Sick Leave Benefits in Iowa Public Schools in Relation to Accumulation Levels Allowed
… to determine if a relationship existed between sick leave utilization by professionaf staff members in Iowa public school districts and the number of sick leave days allowed to accumulate. Two other factors, size af district and average teacher's salary, were selected as covariates because of …
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Inequity in access to paid sick leave in the Seattle area leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic
Objectives: To examine inequity in access to paid sick leave (PSL) by race/ethnicity, income, and sex and to examine the association of PSL access with leave-taking, health behaviors, and respiratory pathogen presence among Seattle-area workers. Methods: Survey responses were collected online and …
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The Impact of Advocacy Groups in Facilitating Policy Diffusion to Pass Paid Sick Leave Laws in New Jersey
This study of the adoption and diffusion of paid sick leave laws in New Jersey has been designed to examine the spread of the policy between local governments and then the subsequent adoption of the policy by the state. In New Jersey, PSL was first adopted by Jersey City in 2013. Following that …
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Employee Absenteeism
… Most companies provide a certain number of paid sick leave days for their employees. If employees take paid sick leave days even when they aren't sick a high absenteeism results. This is costly both in terms of direct sick leave payments and loss of productivity. Incentives for attendance might …
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Three Essays on Econometric Modeling and Application: Health and Consumer Behaviors
… model that investigates the effect of paid sick leave on workers' decision to receive the seasonal flu vaccination. For this investigation, I apply a Bayesian non-linear structural regression model with one-outcome and two-endogenous equations. The results of my estimation indicate that …
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Back and neck pain: Patterns in healthcare consultations
… prevalence, healthcare consultation and sick leave patterns in patients with musculoskeletal disorders. he thesis comprises four studies in which the Skåne Healthcare Register was linked with national registers on sick leave, prescribed drugs, and socioeconomic status. Additionally, the …
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Effect of Household Structure on Family-Friendly Benefit Utilization: Implications for Organizational Attraction and Workplace Withdrawal Behaviors of Federal Government Employees
… part-time, compressed schedules, telework, and sick and annual leave. Dual income employees were more likely to use flexible schedules, annual and sick leave, telework, and part-time work. Traditional family employees were more likely to use flexible schedules, annual and sick leave, compressed …
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An investigation of the extent of teacher absenteeism and the implementation of selected teacher absence control techniques
… teacher absenteeism rates and the number of sick leave days earned annually by teachers. SPSS subprograms provided frequencies, cross tabulations and discriminant analysis. The major findings are that the estimated daily teacher absenteeism rate of 4.8 percent for 1980-81 represents an …
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A Study of Teacher Absences in the Elementary Schools of the Highline School District of King County, Washington
… absences; and (6) to determine whether extended sick leave provisions and duty-free noon hours have had any substantial effect on teacher absence patterns.
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Vilniaus miesto poliklinikų medicinos darbuotojų sergamumas, laikinai netekus darbingumo /
… of the work is to analyze the medical employees sickness absence in Vilnius outpatient clinics in 2002- 2003. Methodology. Analyzing the medical employees sickness absence in outpatient clinics in 2002- 2003 the cases of sickness and sick leaves were taken down from the sick notes of health care …
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Workplace-related anxieties and workplace phobia : a concept of domain-specific mental disorders
… workplace phobia were significantly longer on sick leave in the past 12 months (23,5 weeks) than patients without workplace phobia (13,4 weeks). Different qualities of workplace-related anxieties lead with different frequencies to work participation disorders. Conclusion: Workplace phobia …
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Essays in labor economics and political economy
… The second chapter studies the response of sickness absences to changes in the replacement rate for sick leave. In June 2008 a national law modified both the strength of monitoring and the monetary cost of sick leaves for public sector employees. Using administrative data I show that …
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Sex, Entrepreneurship, and Benefits: The Role of Small Business Owners in Promoting Gender Equity in the Workplace through Benefits Offerings
… work schedules, (2) health plans, (3) paid sick leave, and (4) paid vacation leave.
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Work Stress, Meaning, And Values: A Study Of Intellectual Disability Support Staff
… psychological health, job search/intention to leave the job, and use of sick leave. Participants included staff members from an inpatient facility for people with intellectual disabilities located in North Mississippi (N = 135) between the reported ages of 19 and 61 years (M age = 33.69 years, …
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A detailed study of persons admitted to the spinal unit of conradie hospital, Pinelands, Cape, during 1985.
… status, with little in the way of pension or sick leave benefits. 0 Post injury employment opportunities are very limited, as are vocational training facilities. 0 The main causes of injury are examined, and while Motor Vehicle Accidents, Falls and Gunshot wounds are commonly described in the …
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Muscle strength and physical education: epidemiological studies of factors in adolescence and their association with later morbidity
… diagnosis as well as with increased sick leave and increased number of physician visits. Men with low muscle strength did not have an increased risk for musculoskeletal pain but an increased risk of ischemic CVD as well as middle age CVD mortality. Notably, the associations were …
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