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differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a …
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Designing benefits for the growing platform workforce in the U.S. poses significant challenges. While platform workers need protection against unforeseen shocks, work that is often part time and spread across multiple platforms makes the traditional benefits model untenable. This paper reports...
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ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which … least likely to reflect relational borrowing responses to idiosyncratic absenteeism shocks. Counterfactual simulations …
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jobs. Job complexity has no discernible effect on absenteeism. Matching better educated workers to more complex jobs … affects neither absenteeism nor quit propensity. Thus it appears that experimental evidence suggesting that job enlargement …
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absenteeism remains scant due to difficulties with identification. In this paper, we use uniquely detailed data on the timing … a major cause of absenteeism among teachers, we find no evidence that poor health also causes lower on …
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Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on … evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and … find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a 28-day cycle. We also show that the evidence of 28-day cycles in the …
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This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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