Employee collective voice and short-term sickness absence in Europe
本文利用1996-2010年24个欧洲国家的数据，发现工会密度和企业层面的员工代表制度与短期病假缺勤率之间存在微小但显著的负相关关系。
This article analyses the relationship between employee collective voice, measured by union density and institutionalized forms of employee representation at enterprise level, and short-term sickness absence rates in 24 European countries over the period 1996–2010. It relies on individual-level data on sickness absence from the European Labour Force Survey combined with country-level data on employee collective voice. There is a small but significant and non-trivial, negative relationship between employee collective voice and short-term sickness absence. Regression analysis suggests that if union density had remained at the 1996 level, short-term sickness absence would have been, on average, 2.5 hours lower per year than in 2010.