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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behavior will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...

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Examining the Education Gradient in Chronic Illness

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

for the possibility of shared, unmeasured determinants of disease prevalence and disease diagnosis that are correlated … chronic disease …

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021

We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...

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Flexible Contracts

Gottardi, Piero - 2012

This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of … play then an important role in determining the costs of delegation. The main focus of the paper lies indeed in the analysis … of these costs and the consequences for whether or not delegation is optimal.We determine and characterize the properties …

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Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal Effects Under Imperfect Climate Policy

Hoel, Michael - 2015

We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. With imperfect climate policies, cost reductions related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions...

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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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Cost Sharing in Collective Contests

Nitzan, Shmuel - 2014

This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity …

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