Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192181 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 197
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
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.
Subjects: 
Air pollution
sick-leaves
logit specification
JEL: 
C25
J21
Q25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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