Air Pollution and Sick-leaves - is there a Connection? A Case Study using Air Pollution Data from Oslo

Anett C. Hansen and Harald K. Selte
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Harald K. Selte: Statistics Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/ansatte

Discussion Papers from Statistics Norway, Research Department

Abstract: In recent years a growing number of studies have been discussing the relationship between air pollution and human health. The evidence in the literature for adverse health effects of several pol-lutants seems convincing. In our article we are concerned with to which extent these health effects in turn induce sick-leaves or other kinds of reduced labour productivity, which is important for as-sessment of air pollution costs. We analyse the association between sick-leaves in a large office in Oslo and the concentration of different air pollutants and find a significant relationship between the concentration of particulate matter and sick-leaves, while the associations with SO2 and NO2 are more ambiguous.

Keywords: Air pollution; sick-leaves; logit specification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 J21 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-07
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