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An inquiry into the theory, causes and consequences of monitoring indicators of health and safety at work
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - 2010
agents, ergonomics, working time, violence) and outcomes (injuries, illnesses, absenteeism, job satisfaction) within … workplaces. Third, it explores the implications of the lack of OSH in terms of the economic and social costs that are entailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269545
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Sick of your colleagues' absence?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268993
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319481
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282354
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262290
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262589
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Work-Related Stress, Quitting Intentions and Absenteeism
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262746
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267730
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On the inverse relationship between unemployment and absenteeism: evidence from natural experiments and worker heterogeneity
Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - 2007
whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive …-2004. Second, we analyze the impact of differences in the costs of unemployment on the annual absence rates of workers in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268138
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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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