Ichino, Andrea; moretti, enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
signaling model in which employers cannot directly observe workers' productivity, and therefore use observable characteristics … %u2013 including absenteeism %u2013 to set wages. Since men are absent from work because of health and shirking reasons … difference declines with seniority, as employers learn more about their workers' true productivity. Finally, we calculate the …