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We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
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Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker...
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distress are associated with detrimental effects on employment and absenteeism, similar to effects found in previous analyses …
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jobs. Job complexity has no discernible effect on absenteeism. Matching better educated workers to more complex jobs … affects neither absenteeism nor quit propensity. Thus it appears that experimental evidence suggesting that job enlargement …
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provisions and provide an unintended incentive for increased teacher absenteeism. To the extent that less learning occurs when … absenteeism across the over 700 school districts in New York State in 1986-87 and of how such variations influence student test …
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differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a …
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absenteeism remains scant due to difficulties with identification. In this paper, we use uniquely detailed data on the timing … a major cause of absenteeism among teachers, we find no evidence that poor health also causes lower on …
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Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on … evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and … find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a 28-day cycle. We also show that the evidence of 28-day cycles in the …
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In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
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We construct a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India and find that the large investments in public primary education over the past decade have led to substantial improvements in input-based measures of school quality, including infrastructure,...
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