Explaining the gender gap in sickness absence
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Gender Di erences in Sickness Absence and Family Responsibility∗
Swedish women are on average more absent from work for health reasons while simultaneously having lower mortality rates. This con icting pattern suggests that part of the gender gap in health-related absenteeism stems from di erences between genders not related to actual health. One possible explanation could be that women, because of relatively more risk-averse behavior, utilize absence from w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqy062