Family employees and absenteeism

Laszlo Goerke, Joern Block, Jose Maria Millan and Concepción Román

No 201402, IAAEU Discussion Papers from Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)

Abstract: Work effort varies greatly across employees, as evidenced by substantial differences in absence rates. Moreover, absenteeism causes sizeable output losses. Using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), this paper investigates absence behavior of family employees, i.e. workers who are employed in enterprises owned by a relative. Our estimates indicate that being a family employee instead of a regular employee in the private sector significantly reduces both the probability and duration of absence to a substantial degree.

Keywords: absenteeism; family employees; European Community Household Panel; work effort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J22 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02
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