Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: evidence from Italy

Table 11 Estimates of the effect of sickness absence on risk of unemployment

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Rate of absenteeism	0.076***	0.068***	0.072***	0.069***
	(0.006)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.006)
Small firm (≤15)		0.012***	0.002*	0.003***
		(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Small firm* Rate of absenteeism		0.027*	0.031**	0.040***
		(0.014)	(0.014)	(0.014)
Female		0.029***	0.028***	0.033***
		(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Age		0.001***	0.005***	0.005***
		(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Age squared		-0.000**	-0.000***	-0.000***
		(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Blue-Collar			0.018***	0.023***
			(0.002)	(0.002)
Tenure			-0.002***	-0.002***
			(0.000)	(0.000)
Tenure squared			0.000	0.000
			(0.000)	(0.000)
Actual experience			-0.002***	-0.002***
			(0.000)	(0.000)
ln(Wage)				0.026***
				(0.001)
Constant	0.036***	-0.002	-0.096***	-0.203***
	(0.000)	(0.004)	(0.022)	(0.022)
Observations	427213	427213	427213	426929

Notes: WHIP dataset. OLS estimates are reported. Further controls are the same used in Table 2. Standard errors are allowed for within individual correlation. The symbols ***, **, * indicate that coefficients are statistically significant, respectively, at the 1, 5, and 10 percent level.