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Unionization and sickness absence from work in the UK
Veliziotis, Michail - 2010
Does union membership increase sickness absence from work and, if so, by how much? And which specific channels does this effect operate through? Using UK Labour Force Survey data for 2006-2008 we find that trade union membership is associated with a substantial increase in the probability of...
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Analysing the gender wage gap using personnel records of a large German company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - 2008
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268913
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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
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Daughters and left-wing voting
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2006
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267532
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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009
the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269334
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Peer salaries and employee satisfaction in the workplace
Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - 2012
affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …
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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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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270506
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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/10010273918
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The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages
Wikström, Johan - 2009
Several studies have documented that employer incentives, in form of experience rating, co-insurance or deductibles, could decrease the social insurance usage. Such employer incentives may though have unintended side effects, as it gives employers incentives to transfer the costs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273955