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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea; Maggi, Giovanni - 2021
differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a …
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Creating a Bigger Pie? the Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance
Blasi, Joseph - 2010
employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty … beneficial effects on all outcomes save for absenteeism and that it has its strongest effects on turnover, loyalty, and worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758506
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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication
Chatterji, Pinka - 2008
This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769677
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What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Jones, Damon - 2018
the first year. Our 95% confidence intervals rule out 83 percent of previous estimates on medical spending and absenteeism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929552
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael - 2016
Public sector absenteeism undermines service delivery in many developing countries. We report results from an at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989118
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Firms' Sickness Costs and Workers' Sickness Absences
Böheim, René - 2014
In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050299
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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2014
We construct a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India and find that the large investments in public primary education over the past decade have led to substantial improvements in input-based measures of school quality, including infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050305
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea - 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/10012779745
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Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2008
Using detailed data from North Carolina, we examine the frequency, incidence, and consequences of teacher absences in public schools, as well as the impact of an absence disincentive policy. The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773217
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior
Pichler, Stefan - 2016
adjustments ('moral hazard') into contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior and derives testable conditions … contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. The first part exploits high-frequency Google … from the U.S., this finding provides indirect evidence for the existence of contagious presenteeism …
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