Drinking Patterns and Earnings

Pratima Ramful Srivastava
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Pratima Ramful Srivastava: RMIT University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Recreational Drug Consumption, 2013, pp 115-131 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is increasingly argued that heavy drinking has an adverse impact on labour market outcomes usually through impaired health, absenteeism and poor job performance (see Mangione et al. 1999; Gmel and Rehm 2003). Where workers receive wages that reflect their productivity, heavy drinking or bingeing is likely to have an adverse effect on their earnings. Collins and Lapsley (2002) estimated drug abuse related loss of productive capacity in the Australian paid workforce to be around AUD5.5 billion, of which alcohol contributed around 35 %. Their study identified three principal ways in which drug abuse has an important impact on productivity: deaths and illnesses causing premature retirement; absenteeism from sickness or injury; and reduced on-the-job productivity.

Keywords: Heavy Drinking; Labour Market Outcome; High Earning; Drinking Status; Moderate Drinker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02405-9_7

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