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Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
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Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
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Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...
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