Working Paper: NBER ID: w7415
Authors: Andrea Ichino; Giovanni Maggi
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: No keywords provided
JEL Codes: J2; K4
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| individual backgrounds (I24) | absenteeism (J22) |
| individual backgrounds (I24) | misconduct (K42) |
| group interaction effects (C92) | absenteeism (J22) |
| group interaction effects (C92) | misconduct (K42) |
| sorting of workers (J63) | absenteeism (J22) |
| sorting of workers (J63) | misconduct (K42) |