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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data

Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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