TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Block, Jörn
AU  - Goerke, Laszlo
AU  - Millán, José María
AU  - Román, Concepción
        TI  - Family Employees and Absenteeism
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7936
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7936
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - European Community Household Panel
KW  - family employees
KW  - absenteeism
KW  - work effort
        ER  -