Teams, Teamwork and Absence*
研究发现，采用团队生产的企业因缺勤成本更高而加强监控，从而缺勤率更低；基于德国制造业企业数据，团队和较小规模企业缺勤率更低，且规模效应仅存在于有团队的企业中。
Abstract We argue that firms with interdependent worker productivity, team production, have a higher cost of absence and, as a consequence, spend additional resources on monitoring absence. As a result, firms with team production should have lower absence rates. We estimate the determinants of absence for blue‐collar workers using a sample of German manufacturing establishments. Workplace teams are used as a proxy for team production. The estimates reveal that firms with teams have lower absence rates, as do smaller establishments. The size effect, however, is unique to establishments with teams, which fits prior theoretical work that has not been previously tested.