Women devote more time to housework than men do. Men devote more time to an employment than women do. In the present paper we study the role of identity in the gender gap in the allocation of time between an employment and housework. We develop a model consisting of two types of individuals, men...

Attendance is not a function of employment. Attendance at the workplace is instead an employer choice of location, and so should be categorically excluded from the essential functions analysis for employment discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When plaintiffs...

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...

This book presents findings based on the American Time Use Survey. This new data set allows the contributors to determine how Americans spend their time, providing a better understanding of everyday life.

Moral hazard is easy to justify theoretically but difficult to detect <p> empirically. Individuals may report sick due to illness as well <p> as for moral hazard reasons. Potential abuse of the sickness insurance <p> system in Sweden is estimated by comparing the change <p> between the number of men and...</p></p></p></p>

In this paper information on individual birth dates is used as a natural experiment when estimating potential cheating behavior within the Swedish sickness insurance program. In the psychological literature there are theories why men and women react differently to ethical situations. Results in...

Representative and reliable individual time use data, in connection with a proper set of socio-economic back-ground variables, are essential elements for the empirical foundation and evaluation of existing and new theories in general and in particular for time use analyses. Within the...

In this paper, we provide new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using the Workplace Employee Survey (WES) 1999-2002 from Statistics Canada. Our paper extends the typical labour-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to...

The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...