increased minimum retirement age - on middle-aged employees' absence from work due to sick leaves. We find that this effect is … positive for females and negative for males. After excluding health as a plausible mechanism, we argue that the intertemporal …

representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an …

Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This … conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the … genders unrelated to actual health. An overlooked explanation could be that men an women's preferences for absenteeism differ …

Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This … conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the … genders unrelated to actual health. An overlooked explanation could be that men and women's preferences for absenteeism differ …