ABSTRACT

This article mainly examines the effect(s) of legal drug misuse on work absenteeism, which has a connecting influence to work productivity. Also, the analysis compares the effects of legal drug use (e.g., tranquilizers) on work absences to that of a commonly used, but illegal drug, marijuana. Utilizing a large dataset from the NSDUH (National Survey on Drug Use and Health), and controlling for several demographic and labor market-related variables, our results indicate that legal drug use (for nonmedical reasons) leads to an increase in work absenteeism, as does marijuana. In some instances, legal drug use has a greater effect on work absenteeism that does marijuana.

摘要

本文主要研究合法药物滥用对工作旷工的影响，这与工作生产率有联系。此外，该分析还将合法吸毒（例如镇静剂）对缺勤的影响与普通但非法毒品大麻的影响进行了比较。利用来自NSDUH（全国药物使用和健康调查）的大型数据集，并控制几个与人口统计和劳动力市场相关的变量，我们的结果表明，合法药物使用（出于非医学原因）导致工作缺勤的增加，因为做大麻。在某些情况下，合法吸毒会对从事大麻工作的旷工产生更大的影响。