Sweden has obligatory sickness and disability insurance which is both financed (from payroll taxes) and administrated …

conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the …, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility … existence of gender-specific preferences for abstenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …

conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the …, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility … existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …

gender differences in work absence behavior. We find that about one third of this difference in our sample can be attributed …

, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …

gender differences in work absence behavior. We find that about one third of this difference in our sample can be attributed …

This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions … more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced …