Do economic incentives affect work absence? Empirical evidence using Swedish micro data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Johansson, P; Palme, M
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(95)01501-9
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 195-218
• 关键词: sickness insurance; unobserved heterogeneity; mixture distribution; semiparametric estimation

摘要

Using a linear demand function, frequently used in labour supply studies, absenteeism is modelled as an individual day-to-day decision. The parameters in the econometric model are consistently estimated, using the (time-aggregated) number of days absent in 1981 as the dependent variable for a sample of Swedish blue-collar workers (both men and women), under some assumptions on unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation. Implications of compensating wage differentials and efficiency wage hypotheses are discussed. The results for the male subsample reveal a negative effect on work absence of the direct cost of being absent. However, for the female subsample, the Slutsky condition is rejected.