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Employee Absence : An Organizational Perspective
Eskildsen, Jacob - 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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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
Blasco, Sylvie - 2012
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128228
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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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