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Effective Working Hours and Wages: The Case of Downward Adjustment via Paid Absenteeism [PDF]

This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours.
Christian Pfeifer
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Defining Problematic School Absenteeism Using Nonparametric Modeling

, 2017
Contemporary classification models of school absenteeism often employ a multitier approach for organizing assessment and treatment strategies. Researchers have yet to agree, however, on how to objectively define problematic school absenteeism and ...
Skedgell, Kyleigh Kay
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Effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing staff absenteeism during pandemic influenza. [PDF]

, 2007
We used a deterministic SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed) meta-population model, together with scenario, sensitivity, and simulation analyses, to determine stockpiling strategies for neuraminidase inhibitors that would minimize absenteeism ...
Vernon J. Lee, Mark I. Chen, Lee, V.J, Chen, Mark I, Lee, Vernon J, Chen, M.I   +5 more
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Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students (MASS) in intermediate vocational education schools: design of a controlled before-and-after study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background School absenteeism, including medical absenteeism, is associated with early school dropout and may result in physical, mental, social and work-related problems in later life.
Madelon K Van der Vlis, Marjolein Lugtenberg, Yvonne T.M. Vanneste, Wenda Berends, Wico Mulder, Rienke Bannink, Amy Van Grieken, Hein Raat, Marlou L.A. de Kroon   +8 more
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Reasons for absenteeism in rural primary schools in two Colombian municipalities

Revista Salud Bosque, 2020
Background: School absenteeism is a considerable problem generally related to higher dropout rates, poor academic achievement and school lag. This study determined the frequency and causes of overall and illness-related absenteeism of students in rural ...
Sandra Lucía Vargas, María Inés Matiz, Victor Alberto Olano, Diana Sarmiento-Senior, Juan Felipe Jaramillo, Neal Alexander, Audrey Lenhart, Thor Axel Stenström, Hans J Overgaard   +8 more
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Typologies, teacher contact, and family consequences of school absenteeism in Japan

Frontiers in Education
School absenteeism (futōkō) has increased substantially in Japan over the past decade, yet empirical research based on students who are actually experiencing prolonged school absence remains limited.
Hiromichi Kato, Masayoshi Ota, Koki Kinoshita, Yuejiang Hou, Fumika Murai   +4 more
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Addressing medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary students: effectiveness of a public health intervention, using a quasi-experimental design

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Students’ health and school absenteeism affect educational level, with adverse effects on their future health. This interdependence is reflected in medical absenteeism.
Yvonne T. M. Vanneste, Jolanda J. P. Mathijssen, Ien A. M. van de Goor, Carin M. C. Rots – de Vries, Frans J. M. Feron   +4 more
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Projected geographic disparities in healthcare worker absenteeism from COVID-19 school closures and the economic feasibility of child care subsidies: a simulation study

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background School closures have been enacted as a measure of mitigation during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It has been shown that school closures could cause absenteeism among healthcare workers with dependent children, but ...
Elizabeth T. Chin, Benjamin Q. Huynh, Nathan C. Lo, Trevor Hastie, Sanjay Basu   +4 more
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ABSENTEEISM IN THE ITALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR: THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN SICK LEAVE COMPENSATION [PDF]

In this paper we analyse how the absence behaviour of Italian public sector employees has been affected by a law, passed in June 2008, reducing sick leave compensation and increasing monitoring intensity.
Maria De Paola, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa   +2 more
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Clondalkin Area Response to Absenteeism. Report for the attention of the Department of Education and Science.

, 2000
Absenteeism and early school leaving have been key issues that the Partnership has been addressing since its inception. From the outset It underscored the need for specific research on absenteeism in disadvantaged areas of Clondalkin and commissioned the

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