TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nicholson,Sean
AU  - Pauly,Marc V.
AU  - Polsky,Daniel
AU  - Sharda,Claire
AU  - Szrek,Helena
TI  - Measuring the Effects of Workloss on Productivity With Team Production
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10632
PY  - 2004
Y2  - July 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10632
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10632.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sean Nicholson
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University
102 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607/254-6498
Fax: 607/255-4071
E-Mail: sn243@cornell.edu

Mark Pauly
 Department of Health Care Management
University of Pennsylvania
208 Colonial Penn Center
3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA  19104-6218
Tel: NA
Fax: NA
E-Mail: pauly@wharton.upenn.edu

Daniel Polsky
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
423 Guardian Drive, Blockley Hall, Rm 1212
Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-Mail: polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu
AB  - Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker functions as part of a team, and the time sensitivity of the worker's output.  We then estimate wage  multipliers' for 35 different jobs, where the multiplier is defined as the cost to the firm of an absence as a proportion (often greater than one) of the absent worker's daily wage.  The median multiplier is 1.28, which supports the view that the cost to the firm of missed work is often greater than the wage.
ER  -