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Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009

We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...

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

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 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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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2011

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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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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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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Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002

-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …

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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …

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On the inverse relationship between unemployment and absenteeism: evidence from natural experiments and worker heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from different countries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in...

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Analysing the gender wage gap using personnel records of a large German company

Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - 2008

GWG gets larger with tenure for blue-collar but smaller for white-collar workers; (7) individual absenteeism has no … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … discrimination. A simple model within the context of absenteeism and statistical discrimination is offered. …

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The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2009

We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off...

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