Calendrier du 07 novembre 2017
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 07/11/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
PITON Sophie (PSE)
CANCELLED - Economic Integration and the Non-tradable sector: the European Experience
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 07/11/2017 de 14:45 à 16:15
ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405
O'ROURKE Kevin (Oxford)
* Empire, distance, and British exports 1700-1900
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 07/11/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BEHNENDA Asma (PSE)
Absence, Substitutability and Productivity: Evidence from Teachers
Worker absence is a frequent phenomenon but little is known on its effects on productivity nor on organizations’ strategies to cope with this temporary disruptive event through substitute workers. Using a unique French administrative dataset matching, for each absence spell, each missing secondary school teacher to her substitute teacher, I find that the expected loss in daily productivity from teacher absences is on par with replacing an average teacher with one at the 15th percentile of the teacher value-added distribution. On average, tenured substitute teachers are able to compensate 30 % of this negative impact while contract substitute teachers do not have any statistically significant impact. This result has important implication for public policy in the context of the shortage of tenured teachers in disadvantaged areas, where contract teachers are more and more concentrated.