@techreport{NBERw7415,
 title = "Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm",
 author = "Andrea Ichino and Giovanni Maggi",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "7415",
 year = "1999",
 month = "November",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w7415",
 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.},
}