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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence

Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022

We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...

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Employee absence : an organizational perspective

Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær; Frederiksen, Anders; Løkke, … - 2018

We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...

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Outsourcing recruitment as a solution to prevent discrimination : a correspondence study

Berson, Clémence; Laouénan, Morgane; Valat, Emmanuel - 2019

. However, little is known about how these behaviors can be prevented. In this work, we assess how organization of recruitment … types of recruitment organization: hiring made through a human resources (HR) service at a centralized level of the company … recruitment. To conduct our research, we rely on data from a correspondence study conducted in 2016 by the Dares (French Ministry …

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How substitutable are workers? : evidence from worker deaths

Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022

We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...

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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom

Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024

We join the scholarly conversation on the implications of the different configurations of firms' stakeholder coalitions for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards of directors (employee governance representation, EGR)...

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Workplace presenteeism, job substitutability and gender inequality

Azmat, Ghazala; Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2020

Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...

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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 - 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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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Behavioral effects of probation periods : an analysis of worker absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Family employees and absenteeism

Block, Jörn; Goerke, Laszlo; Millán, José María; … - 2014

, absenteeism causes sizeable output losses. Using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), this paper investigates …

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