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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 …
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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/10012464243
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Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance
Blasi, Joseph R. - 2008
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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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study
Chatterji, Pinka - 2005
distress are associated with detrimental effects on employment and absenteeism, similar to effects found in previous analyses …
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Worker Absence and Productivity : Evidence from Teaching
Herrmann, Mariesa A. - 2010
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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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...
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Wages and the Allocation of Hours and Effort
Bils, Mark - 1999
We examine the impact of wage stickiness when employment has an effort as well as hours dimension. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. We compare this model quantitatively to models with flexible and sticky wages, but no effort margin. Allowing...
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Anatomy of a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20-80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458814
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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm
Holzer, Harry J. - 1989
In this paper I use data from a survey of firms to estimate the effects of a firm's wage level on several measures of its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience and current tenure of its employees; subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476227