Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox
2017 (English)In: Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), ISSN 0883-7252, E-ISSN 1099-1255, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 440-462Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Women are, on average, more often absent from work for health reasons than men, but live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that the gender absenteeism gap arises partly from factors unrelated to objective health. An overlooked explanation is that men and women might have different preferences for absenteeism due to different attitudes to, for example, risk. Using detailed administrative data on absenteeism, hospitalizations, and mortality, we evaluate the existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and analyze whether these differences are socially determined. We find robust evidence of gender differences in absenteeism that cannot be explained by poorer objective health among women.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. Vol. 32, no 2, p. 440-462
National Category
Probability Theory and Statistics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-287913DOI: 10.1002/jae.2516ISI: 000397856900011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-287913DiVA, id: diva2:923976
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, DNR 2004-2005 2009-0826 2013-24822016-04-272016-04-262017-09-08Bibliographically approved