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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation
Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
and in particular to assess whether the provision of employment protection induces more absenteeism among workers. Our …
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656131
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Worker Absenteeism: An Analysis Using Microdata
Barmby, Tim; Orme, Chris D; Treble, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
This paper presents preliminary findings of a study of worker absenteeism. Our main purpose is to identify the various …
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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide ‘stepping stones’ into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons, workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees....
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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...
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Women's Wages in Full- and Part-Time Jobs in Great Britain
Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498075
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124177
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison; Ours, Jan van - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977281