Absenteeism, Efficiency Wages, and Marginal Taxes
利用挪威全职男性的面板数据，研究发现边际税后工资率提高1%会使缺勤率下降0.3-0.5%，且工伤缺勤对税收变化不敏感，缺勤对税收的敏感性随职业失业率上升而增强。
Abstract In this paper, I test the argument that increased taxes on earnings correspond to increased incentives to shirk, thus causing an increase in the rate of worker absenteeism. After fixed job effects are taken into account, panel register data on prime‐age Norwegian males who work full‐time show that a higher marginal net‐of‐earnings‐tax rate reduces the rate of absenteeism. When the net‐of‐tax rate is increased by 1.0 percent, absenteeism decreases by 0.3−0.5 percent. Injury‐related absences are less affected by tax changes than other absences. Absenteeism becomes more sensitive to tax changes as the occupational unemployment rate increases.