Conventional studies of absenteeism concentrate on labour supply. In this paper we analyse records of worker behaviour which enable us to investigate whether or not demand side effects exist. Using a compensating differentials model, we study how the shadow cost of absenteeism varies across...

Until recently, there has been a consensus among empirical health economists that there is an association between income inequality and individual health, in line with Wilkinson's (1992) idea that the psychosocial effects of the former are detrimental to the latter. However, using US data,...

Conventional studies of absenteeism concentrate on labor supply. An equilibrium approach, however, establishes that the shadow cost of absenteeism varies across firms that operate different technologies. Using an unusual employee/employer matched data set from France, which records both...

The purpose of this paper is also to analyze the importance of unemployment and other social factors as risk factors for impaired mental health. It departs from previous studies in that we make use of information about first admissions to a psychiatric hospital or ward as our measure of mental...

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...