RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Essays on sickness absence from work
A1 López Mourelo, Elva
A2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Universitario de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia (IDEGA). Facultade de CC. Económicas e Empresariais. Departamento de Fundamentos do Análise Económico, 
K1 Worker absenteeism
K1 Sickness absence
K1 Workplace accidents
AB This thesis examines absence from work due to sickness in Spain. The first chapter reviews thecurrent state of knowledge related to theory, as well as empirical evidence relating to sicknessabsence in an economic context. The economic literature has stressed that labour supply factorssuch as gender and age are important in determining sickness absence, but, according to theempirical evidence, the effect of these two variables is uncertain. Chapters 2 and 3 aim to shedlight on this debate by providing empirical evidence regarding the effect of gender and age,respectively, on sickness absence from work. Finally, Chapter 4 examines the contribution ofgovernment intervention in occupational health and safety (OSH) in giving rise to spatialdifferences in the incidence of workplace accidents.
YR 2014
FD 2014-05-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/10274
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/10274
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 26 abr 2026