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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, S; Ziebarth, N.R - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2015

benefits are cut. We implement the test empirically exploiting German sick pay reforms and administrative industry-level data …

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Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Lacroix, G; M-E, Brouard - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between …

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Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Awareness.

Budd, John; Mumford, Karen - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …

We use linked data on over 20,000 individuals and almost 1,500 workplaces from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyze the perceived and actual availability of six major family-friendly work practices amongst British employees. We find a low base rate of actual availability, a...

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Whatâ€™s in it for the firms? Living wage adoption as signal of ethical practice

Schweinzer, Paul; Swaffield, Joanna K. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

We analyse the effect of the voluntary adoption of a living wage on firms operating in product markets in which consumption behaviour is at least partly determined by reputational concerns for ethical firm behaviour. We show without recourse to morality or efficiency-wage theories that the...

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Minimum wage hikes and the wage growth of low-wage workers

Swaffield, Joanna K - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

This paper presents difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of the British minimum wage on the wage growth of low-wage employees. Estimates of the probability of low-wage employees receiving positive wage growth have been significantly increased by the minimum wage upratings or hikes....

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Preferences and labor supply effects of benefits: the case of income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

Simmons, P; Zantomio, F - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010

The UK income support system offers a guaranteed income level to single adults available for full time work so long as both earnings and hours worked are below a threshold level. In this paper we examine the effects of this on labour supply. We show that the restriction on hours worked is...

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Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors

Gravelle, Hugh; Hole, Arne Risa; Santos, Rita - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

workplace gender discrimination based on a comparison of the differences in income of female and male GPs in practices with … discrimination measure (the unexplained difference in mean log income) is sensitive to the counterfactual (30% using male returns vs … ethnic minorities and overseas qualified GPs are significantly more likely to do so. …

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Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in professions: the case of English family doctors

Gravelle, H; Hole, A Risa - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

estimates of gender discrimination from Oaxaca decompositions using models of wages (income/hours), OLS and 2SLS models of … income, and propensity score matching. We propose a new direct test for within workplace gender discrimination based on a … null hypothesis of no within workplace gender discrimination. …

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I Can’t Smile Without You: Spousal Correlation in Life Satisfaction

Powdthavee, N - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

-equation residuals to be correlated. This is consistent with the idea of well-being spillovers within marriage. Moreover, consistent with …

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Optimal Differentiation and Spatial Competition: The Spokes Model with Product Delivery

Reggiani, Carlo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …

The spokes model is a recent framework to study n-firms spatial competition. In a spatial framework firms delivering their product can price discriminate with respect to consumers’ location. Conditions for the existence of a price-location equilibrium of the spokes model with delivered product...

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