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Title: | Regional variation in work absence cultures in the United States |
Author(s): | Hernandez, Jorge Ivan |
Director of Research: | Newman, Daniel A. |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Newman, Daniel A. |
Doctoral Committee Member(s): | Cohen, Dov; Vargas, Patrick T.; Rounds, James; Hulin, Charles L. |
Department / Program: | Psychology |
Discipline: | Psychology |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Absenteeism
Social Disorganization Culture Regional Variation |
Abstract: | This paper offers a cultural perspective to the work absenteeism literature, by conceptualizing work absence at the U.S. state level of analysis, and by assessing absenteeism as a manifestation of regional cultures. First, I establish that absenteeism is a spatially dependent phenomenon, and demonstrate that the retest reliability of absenteeism increases at higher levels of aggregation (from individual-level to city-level to state-level), to provide evidence for absence as a state-level construct. Second, I hypothesize main effects of regional cultures on state-level work absenteeism (i.e., in the U.S. West). Third, I assess whether observed regional differences in state-level absence cultures in the West are attributable to (mediated by) regional differences in state-level social disorganization/anomie, while controlling for state-level variance in work industry (e.g., manufacturing), personality (Extraversion, Neuroticism), unemployment rates, and physical disabilities. Analyzing data spanning over 4 years and over 3 million people per year, this paper explains how absenteeism varies across states in the U.S. |
Issue Date: | 2015-04-24 |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78468 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2015 Jorge Hernandez |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-07-22 |
Date Deposited: | May 2015 |
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