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Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm / Andrea Ichino, Giovanni Maggi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ichino, Andrea.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7415.
- NBER working paper series no. w7415
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Work Environment and Individual Background
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1999.
- Summary:
- The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different individual backgrounds; group-interaction effects; sorting of workers across regions; differences in local attributes; different hiring policies and discrimination against southern workers. Our analysis suggests that individual backgrounds, group-interaction effects and sorting effects contribute to explain the north-south shirking differential. None of the other explanations appears to be of first-order importance.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 1999.
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