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...

Overall job satisfaction is likely to reflect the combination of partial satisfactions related to various features of one's job, such as pay, security, the work itself, working conditions, working hours, and the like. The level of overall job satisfaction emerges as the weighted outcome of the...

relationship. In addition, such a relationship takes place early in life and keeps on evolving over time so that both one’s health and SES at a given point in time result from the cumulative effects of this spiral. Thus, only by simultaneously accounting for both pathways as well as for their...