The phrase "weeks of absence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a period of time in which one person has been absent for a certain number of weeks. For example, "John had six weeks of absence due to illness."
Previously, headteachers had discretion in granting up to two weeks of absence for pupils with good attendance records.
Previously, heads had discretion to grant up to two weeks of absence for pupils with good attendance records.
Still, the dearth of details about Mr. Chávez's health problems and the way in which he announced his cancer surgery — after three weeks of absence in Cuba and after Mr. Chávez and state news media in Venezuela claimed he was wrestling only with a pelvic abscess — have raised doubts about how much even senior officials in his government know about his condition.
Therefore, we observe the total number of weeks of absence the worker has made in a given year.
The information on weeks of absence has been kindly provided by the Laboratorio Revelli on our request.
Through Tobit we estimate both the probability of being absent and the expected value of weeks of absence given the individual has been absent.
In third grade, Cecily scored below the 10th percentile in reading and in math, after accumulating weeks of absences, partly because of asthma.
In this way we neglect differences in weeks of absences and we investigate the determinants of being or not being absent from work11.
Model (1) shows that an increase of 4 weeks of absences (about 8 percentage points in the absenteeism rate for a full-time worker) increases the risk of unemployment by 0.60 percentage points (=0.076*4/52) (the effect is highly statistically significant); thus, we find evidence of a positive relation between sickness absences and future risk of being dismissed.
The new regulatory approaches now need to be openly justified, and perhaps taken further.With great power comes great responsibilityBut the week of absences also offers a less obvious lesson.
Reid took a five-week leave of absence earlier this year.
