Gender differences in shirking: monitoring or social preferences? Evidence from a field experiment

Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi and Peter Nilsson ()
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Peter Nilsson: Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, Postal: Stockholm, Sweden

No 2014:9, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased their absence as a response. Furthermore, we find that male workers react more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced by peers. However, our results suggest significant heterogeneity in the degree of influence that male and female workers exert on each other: conditional on the potential exposure to same-sex co-workers, men are only affected by their male peers, and women are only affected by their female peers.

Keywords: Peer effects; employer-employee data; work absence; randomized field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C93 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2014-04-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-dem, nep-exp, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-pol and nep-soc
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