Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

Der Fehlzeiten-Report, der vom Wissenschaftlichen Institut der AOK (WIdO) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Bielefeld herausgegeben wird, informiert jedes Jahr umfassend über die aktuelle Krankenstandsentwicklung in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Das Arbeitsunfähigkeitsgeschehen in den...

Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e., less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....