A Time Series Analysis of Labour Absence in Australia
利用澳大利亚时间序列数据，检验了关于劳动缺勤决定因素的两个假说：一是基于效用最大化框架强调缺勤的机会成本，二是工作环境对缺勤的影响，发现缺勤是工业关系恶化的先行指标。
The authors find evidence from Australian time-series data supporting two hypotheses about the determination of labor absence. First, labor absence modeled in a utility-maximizing framework that stresses the opportunity cost of labor absence receives considerable support from the data. Variables that change the slope and/or shift the budget constraint facing workers affect labor absence. Secondly, the authors find tentative evidence that coercive or difficult work environments, which apparently affect job satisfaction, adversely affect labor absence. In particular, it appears that labor absence is a leading indicator of a deteriorating industrial relations environment characterized by increased industrial disputation. Copyright 1989 by MIT Press.