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Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm*
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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 explaining the north-south shirking differential. None of the other explanations appears to be of first-order importance.
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- Authors
- Ichino, A., & Maggi, G.
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-08
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1057-1090
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-4650
- OpenAlex
- W2165762370
- Cited by
- 502
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 34.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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