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Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Lacroix, Guy - 2011

Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between … acute illness that can prove to be relatively debilitating. Our analysis is based upon the absenteeism of workers employed …

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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Biorn, Erik - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts ﾖ with weaker work-norms ﾖ into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health; on …

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Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences

Böheim, René - 2011

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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The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2011

We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British … suggest that a feedback mechanism is present, whereby high absenteeism in the past is related to a greater future incidence of …

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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 behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees

Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - 2012

We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...

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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

strong negative impact of unemployment on absenteeism rate, which is considerable larger in small firms due to a …

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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence Among Managers in a German Company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2013

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures

Lindbeck, Assar - 2012

In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...

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