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Simon Woodcock
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Latest papers
Establishing work productivity loss norms: Absenteeism and presenteeism in a Canadian working population.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025 · senior author
Valuing productivity loss due to absenteeism: firm-level evidence from a Canadian linked employer-employee survey.
Health economics review · 2017
Illness related wage and productivity losses: Valuing 'presenteeism'.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015
Latest funding
- $436,048
Improving Health Economic Evaluation: Better Measures of Work Productivity Losses due to Illness in Canada
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $68,000
Decomposing wage and test score dispersion when selection into matches is endogenous
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
- $63,580
The impact of poor health and absenteeism on work productivity in Canada: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Establishing work productivity loss norms: Absenteeism and presenteeism in a Canadian working population.
Zhang W, Qian H, L'Heureux J, Johns G, Koehoorn M, Woodcock S
Valuing productivity loss due to absenteeism: firm-level evidence from a Canadian linked employer-employee survey.
Zhang W, Sun H, Woodcock S, Anis AH
Illness related wage and productivity losses: Valuing 'presenteeism'.
Zhang W, Sun H, Woodcock S, Anis A
Improving Health Economic Evaluation: Better Measures of Work Productivity Losses due to Illness in Canada
Principal investigators: Zhang, Wei
Keywords: Absenteeism; Chronic Conditions; Cost; Economic Evaluation; Population-Based Data; Presenteeism; Work Productivity
Decomposing wage and test score dispersion when selection into matches is endogenous
Principal investigators: Woodcock, Simon D.
Keywords: wages; unobserved heterogeneity; test scores; panel data; linked employer-employee data; person and firm effects
The impact of poor health and absenteeism on work productivity in Canada: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
Principal investigators: Anis, Aslam H
Keywords: Health Economics; Health Services Research And Evaluation; Population And Public Health; Work Productivity Measurement
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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