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Per Johansson

Researcher at Uppsala University

Publications -  168
Citations -  4558

Per Johansson is an academic researcher from Uppsala University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Absenteeism & Health care. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 163 publications receiving 4182 citations. Previous affiliations of Per Johansson include Tsinghua University & Institute for the Study of Labor.

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The effects of attitudes and personality traits on mode choice

TL;DR: The authors hypothesise that differences in people's attitudes and personality traits lead them to attribute varying importance to environmental considerations, safety, comfort, convenience and flexibility, and they hypothesize that these attributes lead to varying importance for environmental considerations.
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Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the income and wage trajectories of women to those of their male partners before and after parenthood and find that 15 years after the first child has been born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased by 32 and 10 percentage points, respectively.
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Do economic incentives affect work absence? : Empirical evidence using Swedish micro data

TL;DR: In this paper, absenteeism is modelled as an individual day-to-day decision, using a linear demand function, frequently used in labour supply studies, and the parameters in the econometric model are consistently estimated, using the (timeaggregated) number of days absent in 1981 as the dependent variable for a sample of Swedish blue-collar workers (both men and women), under some assumptions on unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation.
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Moral hazard and sickness insurance

TL;DR: In this paper, the replacement level in the Swedish national sickness insurance, which replaces foregone earnings due to temporary illnesses, affects work absence behavior, and the effects of a major reform, whereby the replacement levels during the first 90 days in each absence spell was reduced, on work attendance.
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Assessing the effect of public policy on worker absenteeism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism, using panel data on work absence for 1990 and 1991 with a sample of 1,396 Swedish blue-collar workers.