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Title: Absenteeism in a U.S. Textile Firm in 1883

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Our labor market measures usually assume continuous employment. Measures of turnover and tenure assume that a job starts, then the worker is continuously employed until the job ends. While historians have discussed irregular attendance (Greenlees 2007; Hareven 1982), economists have paid little attention to the time when workers were employed but not at work, though such absences clearly affect the number of hours actually worked. Ignoring worker absences could cause us to mis-measure annual hours of work. Atack and Bateman (1992) conclude that the typical hours of work in US manufacturing was 10 hours in 1880.

Url: http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/burnettj/Absenteeism.pdf

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Authors: Burnette, Joyce

Publisher: Wabash College

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