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Profiling the US sick leave landscape
Susser, Philip; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a representative and comprehensive database on sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452143
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Economic incentives and gender differences in work absence behavior
Broström, Göran; Palme, Mårten; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2002
We estimate a labor supply model on a random sample of Swedish male and female blue collar workers to study the effect of economic incentives on work absence behavior. We observe work absence for each day during 1990 and 1991 for each worker in the sample. We use non-parametric (Kaplan-Meier)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573006
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Behavioral effects of probation periods : an analysis of worker absenteeism
Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999
The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313944
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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism
Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999
The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262290
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Missing at work : sickness-related absence and subsequent job mobility
Chadi, Adrian; Goerke, Laszlo - 2015
Economists often interpret absenteeism as an indicator of effort. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … promotion (dismissal). In line with the interpretation of absenteeism as a proxy for effort, instrumental variable analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498372
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Economic incentives and gender differences in work absence behavior
Broström, Göran; Johansson, Per-Olov; Palme, Mårten - 2002 - Rev. June 2002
We estimate a labor supply model on a random sample of Swedish male and female blue collar workers to study the effect of economic incentives on work absence behavior. We observe work absence for each day during 1990 and 1991 for each worker in the sample. We use non-parametric (Kaplan-Meier)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502220
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Gender differences in preferences for health-related absences from work
Avdic, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764592
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Gender differences in preferences for health-related absences from work
Avdic, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2013
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 … existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765524
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Workplace presenteeism, job substitutability and gender inequality
Azmat, Ghazala; Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2020
Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245016
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Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work
Avdic, Daniel - 2013
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 … existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079161