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Appendix B: Productivity and Absenteeism
Pages 189-191

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... 1 assumes that only unexpected or unplanned absences are relevant to estimation of redundant labor hours. Time away from work that is predictable can be planned for so that no redundancy occurs.
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... Using the Ford estimates for a small vehicle from Table A.3, the analysis implies that unplanned absence accounts for 5.5 hours per vehicle. This amounts to almost 20 percent of the estimated Ford-Toyo Kogyo productivity gap.
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... There is also the obvious point that we have assumed that the Japanese producers have no unplanned absenteeism, when in fact industry sources suggest that the actual rate is likely to range from 0.5 to 1.0 percent. Applying the same analysis to the Japanese data yields a redundancy rate of 1.2 percent.
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