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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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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data

Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Performance pay and applicant screening

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2017

Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is positively associated with applicant screening. By...

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Worker morale and effort : is the relationship causal?

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Fernandez, Roberto M. - 2015

We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work on the employee's effort. In contrast, a model of worker morale that is consistent with a widely...

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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : a comparison of absenteeism during and after probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

particular to assess whether the provision of employment protection induces less effort among workers in the form of absenteeism …. We also discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment …

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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …. Furthermore, the gap in absenteeism is apparently not driven by different behaviour in case of sickness as we find no difference …

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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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Mental health and productivity at work : does what you do matter?

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2016

mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures - absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity …, job conditions are related to both presenteeism and absenteeism even after accounting for workers' self-reported mental … in good rather than poor mental health. The effects of job complexity and stress on absenteeism do not depend on workers …

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