We analyse the effects of wage uncertainty on the labour supply of self-employed workers, using PSID data on self-employed American males. The standard deviation of past wages, as a measure of wage uncertainty, is the key determinant of male self-employed labour supply, with a significant...

This paper presents preliminary findings of a study of worker absenteeism. Our main purpose is to identify the various factors that influence the rate of absence for individual workers and to quantify their impact. Candidates for inclusion are measurable factors relating either to the structure...

This paper explores a method of recovering the structural parameters of a Nash-bargained model of household labour supply. It proceeds by computing the desired hours of labour supply numerically rather than analytically, thus circumventing the need for analytical tractability. This numerical...

We present results of a negative binomial model on the determinants of the number of days of absence in a given year for a sample of 2049 workers drawn from three factories. We find evidence of the terms of the remuneration contract being important and we offer an interpretation of the...

This note discusses the parameterization of a conventional event history model that allows the researcher to directly recover the parameters that would be obtained from a direct estimation of the discrete duration model. This method is essentially that described in Yamaguchi (1991) but deserves...

The implicit assumption underlying the current policy preference for the frail elderly to be cared for "in the community" is that members of the community, particularly women, will be willing to supply informal (unpaid) care to such people in whatever quantities are required and regardless of...

This paper incorporates some theoretical ideas from the study of the epidemiology of infectious illness into a model of worker absence. The paper then seeks to quantify such infection effects by examining a personnel dataset which allows us to track daily absence decisions of a group of...