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Individual Investments in Education and Health : Policy Responses and Interactions
Carbone, Jared C. - 2016
Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101198
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Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity : Evidence from German Parliamentarians
Arnold, Felix - 2014
We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of parliament (MPs) have to publish details of their outside earnings. Using panel data models, we investigate how outside earnings are correlated with absence and parliamentary...
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
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Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2021
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers’ sickness absences. However, this insurance may create moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the...
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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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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on … continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141884
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Connections and Performance in Bankers' Turnover : Better Wed over the Mixen than over the Moor
Battistin, Erich - 2008
In this paper we study top executive turnover in Italian Banks over the period 1993-2001. We relate the probability of survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank...
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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover : Evidence from an Admission Reform
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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